No need to struggle with configuring Apache web server if all you need is simple CGI server. Host your own:
Your own CGI web server on localhost
import CGIHTTPServer
import BaseHTTPServer
class Handler(CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):
cgi_directories = ["/cgi"]
PORT = 8000
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()
Code by effbot:
- create directory for CGI server, ie. /cgihome with subdirectories ./cgi and ./server.
- /cgihome (on Windows) should be top-level directory (and never use spaces in file/directory names). On Linux, you can place it directly in your home (~), so it might be ~/cgihome. Don't put it too deep. / in the beginning means 'root' :-)
- save code above as file cgihttpserver.py into directory /cgihome/server
- open commadline teminal, and run commands "cd /cgihome" and "python server/cgihttpserver.py" - server runs at localhost, port 8000
- on Windows, you can also create icon to run it
- put any static html page into /cgihome - it is served from http://localhost:8000/page.html
- put any CGI program into /cgihome/cgi - it is served http://localhost:8000/cgi/scriptname.py
- to stop server, close the commandline window
- you can see any activities (and errors) in that terminal window
- don't forget to close terminal when you don't need it anymore.
Introduction - Simple applications
Using templates
- htmltmpl is the best from simple templating engines: has all you need, but no extra features! :-) Preinstalled on Ubuntu
- TurboGears has excellent KID template system
On Windows
Another web server
- Simple web server - cd to the the directory you want to serve, type in the one liner in the command line “python -c 'import SimpleHTTPServer; SimpleHTTPServer.test()'” and proceed to http://localhost:8000/ via browser
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