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Asked: 2026-05-14T03:07:04+00:00

I edited this question after i found a solution… i need to understand why

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I edited this question after i found a solution… i need to understand why the solution worked instead of my method?

This is likely to be a silly question. I tried searching other questions that are related… but to no avail.

i am running Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.4 PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.2

i have a script called test.py

#! /usr/bin/python
print "Content-Type: text/html"     # HTML is following
print                               # blank line, end of headers

print "hello world"

running it as an executable works…

/var/www$ ./test.py
Content-Type: text/html

hello world

when i run http://localhost/test.py i get a 404 error.

What am i missing?

i used this resource to enable python parsing on apache. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91101

From that same thread… the following code worked.. why?
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import time

def index(req):

# Following line causes error to be sent to browser
# rather than to log file (great for debug!)

    sys.stderr = sys.stdout

    #print "Content-type: text/html\n"

    #print """
    blah1 = """<html>
    <head><title>A page from Python</title></head>
    <body>
    <h4>This page is generated by a Python script!</h4>
    The current date and time is """

    now = time.gmtime()
    displaytime = time.strftime("%A %d %B %Y, %X",now)

    #print displaytime,
    blah1 += displaytime

    #print """
    blah1 += """
    <hr>
    Well House Consultants demonstration
    </body>
    </html>
    """
    return blah1
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  1. Editorial Team

    I think the mod_python’s Publisher Handler is expecting to find index function in test.py.

    You can call any function inside test.py by putting it in the end of URL, e.g. http://localhost/test.py/any_func, the default function being index if none given.

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