Question

I am using a python cgi-script and using it for few webpages on my server, Everything works fine when permission is manually set to 755.

But When i edit with some software for eg coda . It uploads with different permissions so, I have to manually again change the permission . I am sick of doing that every time my

.htaccess file has this thing in it

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py

If you have any other alternate or solution to this problem so that i can set like chmod 755 for every .py script or something like that. DO tell.Like any shell script which i can run one time and then do the same. I am using ubuntu 12 server

I tried this, but,

#!/bin/bash
file=`find *.py`
chmod 775 $file

it can be used in bulk.

Answer 1

It seems that the permissions set upon upload are configurable in coda.

Alternatively, you could use inotifywait on the server (from inotify-tools) to add the executable bit whenever the scripts are modified:

$ inotifywait -c -m -e modify -e create -e attrib  path/to/cgi-bin/ \ 
| while read pth; do
    chmod +x "$(echo $pth | awk -F, '{print $1$3}')"
done

Or just while /bin/true; do sleep 5 && chmod 755 path/to/cgi-bin/*.py; done – it shouldn’t matter that much.

If you are feeling adventurous, you could also use Python’s built-in http server module and a CGIHTTPRequestHandler with an overloaded is_executable() method.

Still, I’m curious to see if this can be handled entirely from the apache config. Cheers.