I'd grep your webserver config files for any mentions of ".py" and comment out the offending (and related) lines. I imagine that for some reason it's configured to serve .py files as cgi scripts, rather than serving them as text/plain.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 at 17:44 Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been building a small repository of software and documentation on my > website, but keep getting an error when I try to download a Python file: > > <Start> > Internal Server Error > > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was > unable to > complete your request. > > Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the > error > occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. > > More information about this error may be available in the server error log. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. > <End> > > I'm assuming that the error is because the server is trying to execute the > script instead of making it available because I am able to download all the > other files that I've put up there. > > Is there any way that I can do this without renaming the file to something > other than filename.py? > > I suppose if all else fails I could compress it. > > -- > > Terry Coles > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-04-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING > Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR