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How do I set up a Python CGI server?

I'm running Python 3.2 on Windows. I want to run a simple CGI server on my machine for testing purposes. Here's what I've done so far:

I created a python program with the following code:

import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 8000
Handler = http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler
httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
httpd.serve_forever()

In the same folder, I created "index.html", a simple HTML file. I then ran the program and went to http://localhost:8000/ in my web browser, and the page displayed successfully. Next I made a file called "hello.py" in the same directory, with the following code:

import cgi
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
print("Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8")
print()
print("""<html><body><p>Hello World!</p></body></html>""")

Now if I go to http://localhost:8000/hello.py, my web browser displays the full code above instead of just "Hello World!". How do I make python execute the CGI code before serving it?

Solution

  • Take a look at the docs for CGIHTTPRequestHandler, which describe how it works out which files are CGI scripts.