Common Gateway Interface(CGI) helps you run python application in apache webserver in ubuntu. Follow the steps which help you to configure python with apache webserver.
Step 1:
[code] sudo mkdir /var/www/python [/code]
Step 2:
[code] sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default [/code]
Step 3:
Add the following lines in “default” file and save the file.
[code]
ScriptAlias /python/ /var/www/python/
<Directory "/var/www/python">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
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Step 4:
Restart the apache server to reflect the changes you made in apache configuration file.
[code] sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart [/code]
Step 5:
Now can run your python file under this directory “/var/www/python”
[code] sudo vim /var/www/python/hello.py [/code]
Add these lines in your ‘hello.py’ file to test python is configured correctly
[code]
#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n"
print ‘<html>’
print ‘<head>’
print ‘<title>Hello Word – First CGI Program</title>’
print ‘</head>’
print ‘<body>’
print ‘<h2>Hello Word! This is my first CGI program</h2>’
print ‘</body>’
print ‘</html>’
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Step 6:
Before running your python file under this directory, make sure you have chage mode of file using chmod 755.
[code] sudo chmod 755 hello.py [/code]
Step 7:
Now you can request the page url in browser to load the python
[code] http://localhost/python/hello.py [/code]