configure apache for python in windows

Question

I installed python27 , and also the latest version of apache.

in order to run a simple program by refering link

also edited the httpd.conf file also

but i accessed the folder localhost/cgi-bin displays the error "Forbiden you don't have the permission to access this folder"

Changed the folder permission from properties of folder.

any other way to solve the problem.

Answer 1

So you have a cgi script named hello.py containing the code from the tutorial and installed in the cgi-bin directory as configured in the httpd.conf file?

If you browse to http://localhost/cgi-bin/ you will most likely see a HTTP 403 Forbidden response with text along the lines of:

You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.

You need to execute the actual cgi script, not the containing directory, so try browsing to http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.py .

If that doesn't work, what changes did you make to httpd.conf ? Have you installed the cgi script in the directory specified in the ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ directive?