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Bentley4
Bentley4

Reputation: 11038

How to host python cgi script with `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000` or `python -m CGIHTTPServer 8000`?

When I run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 or python -m CGIHTTPServer 8000 in my shell I am hosting the content of my current directory to the internet.

I would like to make the following cgi_script.py work correctly using the above command in the command line when I browse to 192.xxx.x.xx:8000/cgi_script.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print """\
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
</body>
</html>
"""

But this script is displayed literally and not only the "Hello World!" part. Btw I changed the file permissions to 755 for cgi_script.py as well as the folder I am hosting it from.

Upvotes: 23

Views: 30155

Answers (6)

AchimG
AchimG

Reputation: 21

In Python3 the command line is simply

python3 -m http.server --cgi 8000

Upvotes: 2

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 33

This work for me, run the python -m CGIHTTPServer 8000 command same menu level with cgi-bin,and move cgi_script.py into cgi-bin folder.In browser type http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/cgi_script.py

Upvotes: 0

sabiyur
sabiyur

Reputation: 1

@Bentley4 -ifyou are still not able to do, try importing cgi.

#!C:\Python34\python.exe -u import cgi print ("Content-type:text/html")

HTH

Upvotes: 0

Marquis Blount
Marquis Blount

Reputation: 8105

When I ran into this issue I found that depending on which directory you are in when you run the python -m CGIHTTPServer 8000 command yields different results. When attempting to run the command while in the cgi-bin directory the browser continued to return the raw script code. once I cd'ed one level higher and ran the python -m CGIHTTPServer 8000 command again my script began executing.

Upvotes: 0

spawnedc
spawnedc

Reputation: 476

SO doesn't allow me to comment so I'm adding this as a separate answer, addition to rodrigo's.

You can use another parameter cgi_directories which defaults to ['/cgi-bin', '/htbin']. More info here

Upvotes: 6

rodrigo
rodrigo

Reputation: 98446

Try with python -m CGIHTTPServer 8000.

Note that you have to move the script to a cgi-bin or htbin directory in order to be runnable.

Upvotes: 35

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