ifben
September 9th, 2011, 02:22 AM
Hello,
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I would like to configure Python so that it can run on any of my websites (without having to specify a directory) and without any file headers the way PHP does. For example, I want a configuration that allows me to put a Python file with the contents, " print 'hi' ", in any of my websites' directories that shows a page with, "hi", when I open it in a web browser. I can currently do this with a PHP file that has the contents, " echo 'hi'; ".
Is such a thing possible?
I've got execution of Python scripts with CGI working, but this involves keeping all Python files in one directory and requires file headers such as #usr/bin/python and print "Content-Type: text/html".
I wasn't able to get mod_python to work, but I've heard it's deprecated in favor of mod_wsgi. Besides, based on this guide (http://www.howtoforge.com/embedding-python-in-apache2-with-mod_python-debian-etch), it looks like your Python scripts are still confined to one directory.
And finally there's mod_wsgi, but looking at their configuration guide (http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickConfigurationGuide), it looks like the most common configuration not only involves putting all Python scripts in one directory, but restarting Apache everytime a change is made to a script!
I don't understand how Python can be such an unclear nuisance and PHP was so seamlessly integrated into the environment. I didn't need to do anything to get PHP to work.
Any help is much appreciated!
Ben
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I would like to configure Python so that it can run on any of my websites (without having to specify a directory) and without any file headers the way PHP does. For example, I want a configuration that allows me to put a Python file with the contents, " print 'hi' ", in any of my websites' directories that shows a page with, "hi", when I open it in a web browser. I can currently do this with a PHP file that has the contents, " echo 'hi'; ".
Is such a thing possible?
I've got execution of Python scripts with CGI working, but this involves keeping all Python files in one directory and requires file headers such as #usr/bin/python and print "Content-Type: text/html".
I wasn't able to get mod_python to work, but I've heard it's deprecated in favor of mod_wsgi. Besides, based on this guide (http://www.howtoforge.com/embedding-python-in-apache2-with-mod_python-debian-etch), it looks like your Python scripts are still confined to one directory.
And finally there's mod_wsgi, but looking at their configuration guide (http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickConfigurationGuide), it looks like the most common configuration not only involves putting all Python scripts in one directory, but restarting Apache everytime a change is made to a script!
I don't understand how Python can be such an unclear nuisance and PHP was so seamlessly integrated into the environment. I didn't need to do anything to get PHP to work.
Any help is much appreciated!
Ben