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Asked: 2026-05-21T09:09:16+00:00

I have a file test.py at /var/www and I am using apache2 on ubuntu

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I have a file test.py at /var/www and I am using apache2 on ubuntu 10.10. I have mod_python installed and /etc/apache2/sites-available/default configured as 

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all

    AddHandler mod_python .py
    PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
    PythonDebug On

    # Uncomment this directive is you want to see apache2's
    # default start page (in /apache2-default) when you go to /
    #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>

If it put 

def index(req):
  return "Test successful";

Then i get Test successful

And if i put

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

I get 404: Not found error

More can be found here

Anyone any ideas ??

Regards,

experimentX

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  1. Editorial Team

    mod_python looks for method def index(req) by default when it tries to handle your requests, otherwise you can specify the function which you want to call in the URL. Note that function has to return a specific value.

    So you can do something like

    s ="""\
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
</body>
</html>
"""

def index():
   return s

    The url travelsal under mod_python is illustrated here.

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