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Anon
Anon

Reputation: 865

CGI programming with Python using WAMP and HTML

I'm trying to connect an HTML file with python

Here's my HTML code

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="C:\wamp\www\cgi-bin\nidhi.py">
    <p>Your first name: <input type="text" name="firstname">
    <p>Your last name: <input type="text" name="lastname">
    <p>Click here to submit form: <input type="submit" value="Yeah!">
    <input type="hidden" name="session" value="1f9a2">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Here's the content of C:\wamp\www\cgi-bin\nidhi.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python
import cgi

def main():
    print "Content-type: text/html\n"
    form = cgi.FieldStorage()   # parse query
    if form.has_key("firstname") and form["firstname"].value != "":
        print "<h1>Hello", form["firstname"].value, "</h1>"
    else:
        print "<h1>Error! Please enter first name.</h1>"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

So yes I am running this using WAMP as my server.

So when I open my HTML file I can see the form but when i press the button all it does is shows me the python code.

What am I doing wrong?

Here's the httpd.conf file in C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\conf

ServerRoot "c:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22"
Listen 80
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule php5_module "c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.13/php5apache2_2.dll"

<IfModule !mpm_netware_module>
<IfModule !mpm_winnt_module>
User daemon
Group daemon

</IfModule>
</IfModule>
ServerAdmin admin@localhost

ServerName localhost:80

DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/"

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks 
    AllowOverride None
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html index.htm
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>
ErrorLog "c:/wamp/logs/apache_error.log"
LogLevel warn

<IfModule log_config_module>
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

    <IfModule logio_module>
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
    </IfModule>
    CustomLog "c:/wamp/logs/access.log" common
</IfModule>

<IfModule alias_module>
</IfModule>

<IfModule cgid_module>

</IfModule>

<Directory "C:/wamp/www/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mime_module>

    TypesConfig conf/mime.types
    AddType application/x-compress .Z
    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3

    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .py
</IfModule>
Include conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf


<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>

Include "c:/wamp/alias/*"

Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm losing my mind!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6986

Answers (4)

citizen2191629
citizen2191629

Reputation: 74

Also the top line of the python scripts needs to point to your interpreter like this.

#!C:\Python27\python.exe -u

Im not sure what the -u is for though I got the info from this page.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts

#!C:\Python27\python.exe -u

import cgi

print 'Content-Type: text/plain\n\n' #this line is compulsory to separate body from header in http response

Upvotes: 1

Srinivasan Annamalai
Srinivasan Annamalai

Reputation: 369

The main problem I see is that you have NOT configured Python scripts to be processed by your IIS Server.

Because the Python Module is NOT enabled, Apache does NOT understand your Python code and simply outputs the fully code as it is.

Please use MOD_WSGI (not MOD_PYTHON) in your WAMP Server. You can learn more here: https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/

And, this should help you to quickly set it up: https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickConfigurationGuide

Refer this: Installing mod_wsgi on WAMP server running on Windows 7

Upvotes: 1

citizen2191629
citizen2191629

Reputation: 74

I also just figured out that your header line Content-type: text/html\n needs to be changed to Content-type: text/html\r\n Which is the windows way of doing a newline.

Upvotes: 0

Markku K.
Markku K.

Reputation: 3908

Try changing this line:

<form method="POST" action="C:\wamp\www\cgi-bin\nidhi.py">

To this:

<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/nidhi.py">

You want the action to be a URL, which will be handled through your server, rather than an absolute path to a local file that your browser knows how to get without your server.

Upvotes: 0

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