I have written my first cgi script :- The .html code is :- <HTML><HEAD><TITLE> Friends CGI Demo (Static Screen) </TITLE></HEAD> <BODY><H3>Friends list for:<I>New User</I></H3> <FORM ACTION="/home/david/Documents/pyprogramming/friends1.py"> <B>Enter your name></B> <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=person SIZE=15> <P><B>How many friends do you have ?<B> <INPUT TYPE = radio NAME=how many VALUE="0" CHECKED>0 <INPUT TYPE = radio NAME=how many VALUE="10">10 <INPUT TYPE = radio NAME=how many VALUE="25">25 <INPUT TYPE = radio NAME=how many VALUE="50">50 <INPUT TYPE = radio NAME=how many VALUE="100">100 <P><INPUT TYPE=submit></FORM></BODY></HTML> The python code is :- #!/usr/bin/env python import cgi reshtml = '''Content-Type: text/html\n <HTML><HEAD><TITLE> Friends CGI Demo (dynamic screen) </TITLE></HEAD> <BODY><H3>Friends list for: <I>%s</I></H3> Your name is: <B>%s</B><P> You have <B>%s</B> friends. </BODY></HTML>''' form = cgi.FieldStorage() who = form['person'].value howmany = form['howmany'].value print reshtml % (who, who, howmany)
Now when I open the page using konqueror and click on
submit. Instead of the code running, it justs opens
the .py program in a different window.
Any ideas ?
Hi David,
You can use a small python script to provide a cgi web server for testing:
<code>
import BaseHTTPServer import CGIHTTPServer
def run(server_class=BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer,
handler_class=CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):
server_address = ('', 8000)
httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
httpd.serve_forever()run()
</code>
Put this in a file called, say, server.py. In the same directory as server.py, put a directory called cgi-bin. Put your python cgi scripts in cgi-bin. Modify the action tag in your html form to point to /cgi-bin/friends1.py. Click on the server.py icon, or run it from the command line.
Finally, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/cgi-bin/friends1.py.
You'll proably want to use apache or some other server if you want to do more than just test or demo cgi scripts locally, but this can be a useful alternative for testing simple cgi programs without installing additional software on your machine.
Good luck.
Rich
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