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Sathish Kumar
Sathish Kumar

Reputation: 2606

How to deploy Python application using CGI on IIS?

I am new to python and I try to deploy a simple hello python application on IIS and I followed this URL

https://support.sisense.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115007362727-Installing-Python-on-IIS

Hello.py

print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n"
print '<html>'
print '<head>'
print '<title>Hello Word - First CGI Program</title>'
print '</head>'
print '<body>'
print '<h2>Hello Word! This is my first CGI program</h2>'
print '</body>'
print '</html>'

However, it error's as mentioned below

HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized
You do not have permission to view this directory or page because of the access control list (ACL) configuration or encryption settings for this resource on the Web server

I feel the issue may not be related to permission as I am able to browse hello.html

I tried some of the solutions provided in SO to resolve the issue but nothing worked. Any help is highly appreciated

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4756

Answers (1)

Jalpa Panchal
Jalpa Panchal

Reputation: 12814

To configure Python with IIS you can try to follow the below steps:

  1. Download the latest Python version because IIS will not work with the python old version.

https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

  1. Below is the hello.py file:
print("Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n")
print('<html>')
print('<head>')
print('<title>Hello Word - First CGI Program</title>')
print('</head>')
print('<body>')
print('<h2>Hello Word! This is my first CGI program</h2>')
print('</body>')
print('</html>')
  1. Enable IIS CGI feature.

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  1. Open IIS Manager. Right-click on the server name and select add site.

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  1. Add site binding detail folder path (python folder)

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  1. Select a site and click on the handler mapping from the middle pane.

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  1. Click on add script map from the action pane.

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  1. Add script mapping value.

*.py, and map it to c:\Python37-32\python.exe %s %s.

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Make sure directory browsing is enabled.

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web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="python" path="*.py" verb="*" modules="CgiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Python37-32\python.exe %s %s" resourceType="File" />
        </handlers>
        <directoryBrowse enabled="true" />
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Set iis_iusrs and iusr permission to the site folder(c:\pythonapp) and python folder(C:\Python37-32). Make sure anonymous authentication is enabled, and the application pool is set to the application pool identity. After making all the changes restart IIS server and browse the site.

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Upvotes: 5

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