How to print to HTML using python as server side script?
Question
I have the following html button
<td><form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" onclick="../cgi-bin/py/GuestBookEntry.py">
<input type="submit" name="gBookSrib" id="gBookSrib" value="Sribble" />
</form></td>
My python script is
#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>
When i click the button i want my serverside script to execute and create a html page. How do i do that?
My webhost service provider is fatcow. I think he runs apache, is there a way to check it though? Yes he supports python cgi script. He mentioned that if i place my 'py' files inside the cgi-bin, it should work, even without the 'she'bang.
Fatcow does not allow custom modules. Only standard python modules. They had not allowed access to my cgi-bin folder by default, so had to call them, and then the below stuff just worked.
2 answers
solution1
3 2011-05-23 17:52:23
You need a webserver that serves Python code.
There are several different possibilities out there.
Twisted Web is a webserver written in Python, allowing you to serve content from python with minimal overhead.
Apache / ngnix + Django offers a more complete stack to develop a full web application
solution2
2 ACCPTED 2011-05-23 17:50:40
Which web server are you using? For apache2 there is very tidy module called apache2-modpython, that takes care of executing server-side python scripts and returning the result to the client.
Using this module your python would look like:
def index (req): return "<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>"
Let's say this script is called test.py and has the URI http://yourserver.tld/test.py , then your form would look like:
<form id="form2" name="form2" method="post" action="test.py">
Inside the entry of your site definition add the following lines
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
PythonDebug On
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