how to run python scripts on a website

[py]

i have a website which runs apache on linux. it supports python (i
think via cgi....not sure how else). anyway how can I go to a web page
and run a python script or something like that? for example say i make
a script which prints out all the links on another URL....how can i run
that?


thanks!

 

[James Stroud]

i have a website which runs apache on linux. it supports python (i
think via cgi....not sure how else). anyway how can I go to a web page
and run a python script or something like that? for example say i make
a script which prints out all the links on another URL....how can i run
that?


thanks!

Here is a start. Put the following in your cgi-bin folder or equivalent.
Name it test.cgi


#!/usr/bin/python

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"
print "Hello, World!\n"


Now just browse it. E.g.:

http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/cgi/jstroud/ex-1.1.cgi


James

 

[Christoph Zwerschke]

i have a website which runs apache on linux. it supports python (i
think via cgi....not sure how else). anyway how can I go to a web page
and run a python script or something like that? for example say i make
a script which prints out all the links on another URL....how can i run
that?

Here is an audio introduction to CGI programming with Python:

http://libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_050813_CGI.mp3