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pythonimagelocalhostcgi-bin

Localhost fails to display images

I am attempting to display an image on localhost. As a first step, I have created a sever script in python 

#!/usr/bin/env python

import BaseHTTPServer
import CGIHTTPServer
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()  ## This line enables CGI error reporting

server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
handler = CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler
server_address = ("", 8000)
handler.cgi_directories = ["/"]

httpd = server(server_address, handler)
httpd.serve_forever()

The image is placed within the same directory where this script is executing. Subsequently http://localhost:8000/test.jpg is typed in the browser.

The browser fails to render the image with an error: The image "http://localhost:8000/test.jpg" cannot be displayed because it contains errors.

The server script throws an error like 

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/CGIHTTPServer.py", line 253, in run_cgi
    os.execve(scriptfile, args, env)
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

I have tried displaying text and the server works fine with lot of examples. Except that it fails to load images. Where am I going wrong?

The problem was solved. I moved the test.jpg into a sub-directory within the server directory.

Solution

  • Your code is attempting to execute the test.jpg as a cgi script. If you remove the CGIHttpRequestHandler and instead use SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler you will get your image back. If you need both, then you need to put the image somewhere else.