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Asked: 2026-05-21T02:55:33+00:00

Just doing a basic python project with HTML file, i came across a tutorial

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Just doing a basic python project with HTML file, i came across a tutorial which gave an idea about how i can execute the code,

here is the HTML code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 http-equiv="content-type">
  <title>Admin Login</title>
</head>
<body>
<big><big>Login
Here<br>
<br>
</big></big>
<form action="/var/www/cgi-bin/Login.py" name="LoginForm"><big>Administration
Login<br>
 User Name<br>
  <input name="UserName"><br>
  <br>
  <br>
Password<br>
  <input name="PassWord"><br>
  </big><br>
   <br>
  <br>
<input type="submit">
  <br>
</form>
&nbsp;__&nbsp;<br>
</body>
</html>

and the python code..

#!/usr/bin/python
import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
# get the info from the html form
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
#set up the html stuff
reshtml = """Content-Type: text/html\n
<html>
 <head><title>Security Precaution</title></head>
 <body>
 """

print reshtml 

User = form['UserName'].value
Pass = form['PassWord'].value

if User == 'Myusername' and Pass == 'MyPasword':
    print '<big><big>Welcome'
    print 'Hello</big></big><br>'
    print '<br>'
else:
    print 'Sorry, incorrect user name or password' 

print '</body>'
print '</html>'

The problem is, when i submit the username and password, it just shows the whole code back on the browser and not the required Welcome message :(. I use Fedora13 .. can anyone tell me what is going wrong? I even changed the permissions of the file(s).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Most likely, your webserver is not configured to execute the script. Even if it’s marked as ‘executable’ in the file system, that doesn’t necessarily mean the webserver knows that it should be executing .py files (rather than just serving them ‘straight up’). Have a look here if you’re running Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html

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