file handling in a server (.py) file using xmlrpc

[uwb]

I've got a call to glob in a .py file sitting in an apache cgi-bin directory
which refuses to work while the exact same code works from a python console
session.

I'm guessing that in order to read or write files from any sort of a script
file sitting in the cgi-bin directory on a server, something has to be set
to allow such activity. I'd appreciate it if anybody with as clue as to
what that was could tell me about it.

 

[Jeremy Jones]

I've got a call to glob in a .py file sitting in an apache cgi-bin directory
which refuses to work while the exact same code works from a python console
session.

I'm guessing that in order to read or write files from any sort of a script
file sitting in the cgi-bin directory on a server, something has to be set
to allow such activity. I'd appreciate it if anybody with as clue as to
what that was could tell me about it.

So, what do you mean "refuses to work"? Is the cgi script not executing
at all? Spitting out an error? If so, what error? (And is it an error
to the browser calling the cgi script, or in your apache logs?)

Jeremy Jones

 

[uwb]

So, what do you mean "refuses to work"? Is the cgi script not executing
at all? Spitting out an error? If so, what error? (And is it an error
to the browser calling the cgi script, or in your apache logs?)

Jeremy Jones

The script executes, no error messages, but the glob call turns up nothing
while the identical call running from a console does in fact turn up files
names as expected.

 

[Jeremy Jones]

Jeremy Jones wrote:





The script executes, no error messages, but the glob call turns up nothing
while the identical call running from a console does in fact turn up files
names as expected.

Wild guess, but I'm thinking your webserver process doesn't have
permissions to look in your directory.

Following is alternating root shell and IPython shell:

root@qiwi:~ # chmod 777 /bam
root@qiwi:~ # ls -ld /bam
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 96 Jul 8 14:53 /bam

In [4]: glob.glob("/bam/*txt")
Out[4]: ['/bam/foo.txt', '/bam/bar.txt']

root@qiwi:~ # chmod 000 /bam
root@qiwi:~ # ls -ld /bam
d--------- 2 root root 96 Jul 8 14:53 /bam

In [5]: glob.glob("/bam/*txt")
Out[5]: []


HTH,

Jeremy Jones

 

[uwb]

The script executes, no error messages, but the glob call turns up nothing
while the identical call running from a console does in fact turn up files
names as expected.

Wild guess, but I'm thinking your webserver process doesn't have
permissions to look in your directory.

Following is alternating root shell and IPython shell:

root@qiwi:~ # chmod 777 /bam
root@qiwi:~ # ls -ld /bam
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 96 Jul 8 14:53 /bam

In [4]: glob.glob("/bam/*txt")
Out[4]: ['/bam/foo.txt', '/bam/bar.txt']

root@qiwi:~ # chmod 000 /bam
root@qiwi:~ # ls -ld /bam
d--------- 2 root root 96 Jul 8 14:53 /bam

In [5]: glob.glob("/bam/*txt")
Out[5]: []


HTH,

Jeremy Jones

Thanks! Thing does work when I do globs of the local apache directories.