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    copied!<p><b>I edited this question after i found a solution... i need to understand why the solution worked instead of my method?</b></p> <p>This is likely to be a silly question. I tried searching other questions that are related... but to no avail.</p> <p><i>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></p> <p>i have a script called test.py</p> <pre><code>#! /usr/bin/python print "Content-Type: text/html" # HTML is following print # blank line, end of headers print "hello world" </code></pre> <p>running it as an executable works...</p> <pre><code>/var/www$ ./test.py Content-Type: text/html hello world </code></pre> <p>when i run <a href="http://localhost/test.py" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost/test.py</a> i get a 404 error. </p> <p>What am i missing?</p> <p>i used this resource to enable python parsing on apache. <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91101" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91101</a></p> <p>From that same thread... the following code worked.. <B>why?</b> #!/usr/bin/python</p> <pre><code>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 = """&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;A page from Python&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h4&gt;This page is generated by a Python script!&lt;/h4&gt; The current date and time is """ now = time.gmtime() displaytime = time.strftime("%A %d %B %Y, %X",now) #print displaytime, blah1 += displaytime #print """ blah1 += """ &lt;hr&gt; Well House Consultants demonstration &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; """ return blah1 </code></pre>
 

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