Enable Python on Apache2 (Ubuntu9.10)

Python and Apache2 (mod_python)

We first must have package libapache2-mod-python installed for apache2.

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To enable mod_python:

Code:

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

sudo ln -s ../mods-available/mod_python.load mod_python.load

To enable the parsing of .py scripts:

Code:

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/

sudo gedit default

On line 10 you should have:

Code:

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride AuthConfig

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

                # Uncomment this directive is you want to see apache2's

                # default start page (in /apache2-default) when you go to /

                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

        </Directory>

Change it to:

Code:

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride AuthConfig

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all



                AddHandler mod_python .py

                PythonHandler mod_python.publisher

                PythonDebug On



                # Uncomment this directive is you want to see apache2's

                # default start page (in /apache2-default) when you go to /

                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

        </Directory>

Save the file.
Now restart your server:

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Test it:

Code:

sudo gedit /var/www/test.py

insert these lines:

Code:

def index(req):

  return "Test successful";

and it should work
visit http://localhost/test.py and it should say "Test successful" in plain text

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Last edited by oscar; March 6th, 2006 at 04:19 PM ..