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Asked: 2026-05-26T22:24:12+00:00

I have a simple hello world python script: #!/usr/bin/python print Content-Type: text/html print print

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I have a simple hello world python script:

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

I uploaded it to my server, which has python installed, yet when I visit it in the browser by hitting http://myserver.foo/script.py , I see the script in it’s entirety in the browser window. Am I doing something wrong? I want to just see ‘Hello World!’…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Stupid (but mandatory) questions:
    1. Do you have this in either your conf file or an .htaccess (assuming Apache)?

    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py

Options +ExecCGI

    2. Have you chmod‘d the file to 755?
    3. Is Python at /usr/bin/python? (It could be C:\Python32\python.exe)

    Some notes:

    1. I generally recommend #!/usr/bin/env python instead of #!/usr/bin/python. It is more error-proof.
    2. You should be using WSGI if at all possible.
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