Newbie Question

[Jeremy Bowers]

Whenever I access test.py from my browser it says "The page cannot be
found" , I have the file on /var/www/html, what did I miss?

Thanks in advance,
Joel

In general, you will need to post the relevant entries from your Apache
error log and access log. A lot of things can go wrong between your Python
script and final output.

However, if you're getting a 404, it means that you haven't associated the
URL to the file correctly. Again, a lot of things can prevent this, so
you're also going to need to post the relevant Apache configuration files.
Without that, I can't be any more specific.

I'm also concerned that you are conflating mod_python with Python CGI,
which work completely differently when it comes to associating code to
URLs. In general, you won't access a mod_python script by typing in a
URL to a file; that will either try to run it as a CGI or just display it
(depending on the configuration). But we'll work on this when you post the
necessary information and we can see what you are trying to do.

 

[Joel Eusebio]

Hi Everybody,

I'm pretty new to Python and would like to ask a few questions. I have this
setup on a Fedora Core 3 box.

Python 2.3.4
wxPython-common-gtk-ansi-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3
mod_python-3.1.3-5
Apache/2.0.52

I have a test.py which looks like this:
from mod_python import apache
def handler(req):
req.write("Hello World!")
return apache.OK

Whenever I access test.py from my browser it says "The page cannot be found"
, I have the file on /var/www/html, what did I miss?

Thanks in advance,
Joel

 

[Robey Holderith]

Hi Everybody,

I'm pretty new to Python and would like to ask a few questions. I have this
setup on a Fedora Core 3 box.

Python 2.3.4
wxPython-common-gtk-ansi-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3
mod_python-3.1.3-5
Apache/2.0.52

I have a test.py which looks like this:
from mod_python import apache
def handler(req):
req.write("Hello World!")
return apache.OK

This code looks like you are attempting to define a handler. In this case
the handler needs to be properly set up in either your httpd.conf or a
..htaccess (assuming your configuration allows for that).

Whenever I access test.py from my browser it says "The page cannot be found"
, I have the file on /var/www/html, what did I miss?

You don't access handlers like you do CGI. This problem likely lies in
your configuration and not in your code. I would look at mod_python's
documentation some more and probably start with mod_python's
PublisherHandler for initial testing and experimentation.

-Robey Holderith