By tzacharski
Hi,
I have a LAMP environment on Ubuntu and trying to get it to execute Python scripts. All of the files sit under /var/www/euromemes.com/public_html and all the scripts are in /var/www/euromemes.com/public_html/cgi-bin.
I started playing with this and basically I had access to all the files, but they were just displaying code, not executing. Example: http://euromemes.com/cgi-bin/browser.py
After playing around I’m now not even able to access those files (404 on the files and 403 on cgi-bin). I reverted back to all previous changes, the only thing that is changed was me running “sudo a2enmod cgi”.
[QUICK UPDATE: I can confirm that once I run sudo a2enmod cgi that gives me the 403 and 404 errors as described above. Without it running it simply displays the .py file code without executing it.]
I tried editing /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and currently it has this in there:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .py
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
This isn’t getting the job done… Not sure why this is happening, I thought Options ExecCGI and AddHandler cgi-script .py would be enough. Also not entirely sure if I should be editing apache2.conf or whatever .conf files I have in etc/apache2/sites-available, possibly 000-default.conf? I would want all my sites (not just euromemes.com, but all in /var/www) to be able to handle Python scripts.
Thanks in advance!
Best, Tom
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First, are you seeing any error messages in your Apache logs?
tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
A couple common things to watch out for… Make sure the script is executable:
chmod +x /path/to/script.py
And that it is owned by the correct user (likely www-data):
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
Here’s a working mod_cgi configuration:
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
Define ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgid.c>
Define ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN
</IfModule>
<IfDefine ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
AddHandler cgi-script .py
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Require all granted
</Directory>
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>
This serves Python scripts from /var/www/cgi-bin/ at http://domain.com/cgi-bin/script.py
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