On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Charles Carr <chc...@sas.upenn.edu> wrote: > I am running a local cgi server from python on a windows 7 computer. > Whenever I try to serve the output of a cgi file by entering the following > into my browser: http://localhost:8080/filename.py , I get a 404 error > message that the file was not found. I'm positive that the files I am trying > to serve are in the same directory as the server script that is running. Are > there any tips as to where I should save my files in order to avoid this > error?
It depends entirely on how your server is set up. What I would recommend is completely ignoring the file system, and designing a web site using one of the frameworks that are available for Python, such as Flask or Django. Your URLs are defined in your code; you can have a 'static' directory from which simple files (images, CSS, etc) get served, but the file system does not define executable entry points. This avoids the *massive* problems of PHP, where an attacker can upgrade a file delivery exploit into remote code execution; the worst that can happen with Python+Flask+static is that the file gets uploaded into static/ and is then available as-is for download (it won't be run on the server). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
