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Asked: 2026-05-18T23:29:09+00:00

Can anyone assist me in getting a Python script running on Hostgator Shared hosting?

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Can anyone assist me in getting a Python script running on Hostgator Shared hosting? I work with PHP mostly, but have taken a liking to Python, and would like to try to get it going on the web. The only way I’ve ever ran Python is with either the interpreter, or through a terminal, with >Python file.py. I tried just uploading a hello world file to the webserver, but all it outputs is the script source. I talked with hostgator, but all they could tell me was I need to use a dispatcher, which I cannot seem to find an example of. All I want to know, is how to make a <p>Hello</p> output to the browser.

Thanks, and sorry if I’m rambley, I’ve been Googling this off and on all week now.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, I got this from Hostgator’s own support site.

    Assuming your host is running Python 2.x, then you can adapt the linked-to script as follows:

    #!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
print "<html><head>"
print "<title>CGI Test</title>"
print "</head><body>"
print "<p>Test page using Python</p>"
print "</body></html>"

    and put it in your cgi-bin folder with permissions of 755.

    Update: In terms of “getting around” the cgi-bin folder: that’ll depend on options your hosting package allows. Look at Bottle for a simple dispatcher which fits in a single Python module. You can deploy it using CGI,

    import bottle
# Put your bottle code here, following the docs on the Bottle site
bottle.run(server=bottle.CGIServer)

    Further update: Apart from the Bottle docs, I suggest you read the Python docs about CGI.

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