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Asked: 2026-06-01T09:38:42+00:00

I am installing django for my EC2 instance, but before I wanted to do

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I am installing django for my EC2 instance,

but before I wanted to do this simple test:
i created a file in the instance with the web command line tool

hello.py:

#!/usr/bin/python2.6
print "Content-Type: text/html" 
print 
print """\ 
<html> 
<body> 
<h2>Hello World!</h2> 
</body> 
</html>
"""

and change permissions to execute,

but when I go to my page

http://ec2-107-20-20-19.compute-1.amazonaws.com/hole.py

I see the same as the code, not the actual HTML,

but if i do it in other server i actually she the Hello World! message

so what im I missing in my EC2 instance to be able to see the python files?

where is the cgi folder? how to create it in my root folder?

thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should use mod_wsgi with Apache 2 or Gunicorn or uWSGI with Nginx (or another web server) to serve Python web applications. Simply putting a .py file somewhere inside your web server’s document root won’t do what you want, since the web server won’t know that it is a script, nor how to execute it (unless you configure CGI appropriately).

    WSGI has many advantages over CGI: your application code is loaded once and re-used, rather than re-loaded for each web request; it can be run as a different user than the web server, helping to avoid security issues; it has framework support from lots of Python code and frameworks (including Django); etc.

    For more on configuring your Django application for WSGI deployment, see the Django deployment docs.

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