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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

on my web site I want to make a link to a python program that when the user clicks it it will execute a python program. I saw this somewhere before, but i'm not sure how it was done. i tried to simple set a href = prog.py, and i've configured my web server to accept that extension, but i keep getting an internal 500 error.

Any ideas how to do this.

nquin321 · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject:

Try following this tutorial:

http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1222
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Download one of the Python versions
does it execute the script ?

http://vhosting.cjb.net

garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

nquin321 · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject:

I tried to read your question:

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 12:08 am Post subject:

It depends on how you have it set up. This python file is supposed to run on the user's system, and not execute on the webpage, correct? If you want a user to locally run a python script that is stored on your server, and you have python installed, you will need to put it in a zip, or make a PHP script that forces the user to download it. Also, for a user to run a python program, they must have python installed on their system.

The whole issue about "making it pop up in a little box" is something different...
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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

actualy i want it to execute on the web page. is that not possible. thye make a call to the scipt i have it stored and abyss has the interpreter and it executes. why can that not be done?

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 7:14 am Post subject:

No, you can do that. Set up the Python interpreter just as you would another interpreter to interpret files with the extention "py" or anything of your choice.
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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

Thanks for the reply. That is what i thought. i have my server set up to except the following eextensions. py pyw cgi however when i try to access the python "execuatable" i get an internal server error 500. in fact, i can't even get an executable to download.

here is my webapge i'm testing. : http://tantrum-technologies.com/homepage.htm

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject:

When you say "python executable," you mean something like http://tantrum-technologies.com/file.py, right?

Do you have any other interpreters set up using the CGI extention, such as Perl?
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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

yeah thats exactly what i mean. sort of how javascript is used to create dynamic web sites. I want to use python like that.

i did some searching on the site and it seems that since i have python set up as my cgi interpreter. I'm gonna need to first rename my cgi scripts with a .cgi perhaps. I might need an ftp server for my C programs .exe so they can be downloaded.

I'm just thinking though that since i have python installed already, there must be a way for the user to execute a script and my interperter would run it on the site, they would not need to have python installed.

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject:

If they execute on the server, then the user would not have to have Python installed on their system (just as PHP and the others do).

If Python is your only interpreter set up, just rename the Python scripts to .cgi and see if they work.

Also, it could be very well possible that your script is misconfigured. Try this and see if it works:

garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

yeah, i renamed my cgi scripts with a .cgi extension and i made suere to change the cgi path to just/*cgi, they all work fine, and since i haven't set it up to have .py extensions be my cgi scripts, it gives me the python code for extensions with .py and pyw. what i want it to do though is run the code. I know i'm gonna need an ftp server for my C executables, i wouldn't think that would be the same for python though.

also.

if i download an frp server, it will just incorporate with abyss right. its not a different type of server altogather? I can't imagine going through setting up my web page all over again.

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject:

Say you put the "hello world" code into a script called "hello.cgi" and ran it. The page would say "Hello, World!" because the Python interpreter interpreted the code and gave the output to Abyss, which in turn gave the output to you. That's how it works with every script. Is that what you want?

Also, you need to download a whole different FTP server to serve files via FTP. It won't exactly "integrate" with Abyss, but you can run both on the same computer.
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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:29 am Post subject:

I think I get you. This would be like a program that one could normally run on their computer, as a GUI or whatnot, and in this case it runs on a webpage. In that case, it is probably a question for Aprelium to answer.

The only thing I can suggest is try making it more web-based; using forms, et cetera.
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aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

garyanderson,

When you install Python support in Abyss, the Python scripts will run on the server and the client will only see the result of the processing.
If you get error 500, this means that there is an error in your script (usually a syntax error or missing CGI headers).
Please send to support@aprelium.com your abyss.Conf file and your script and we'll tell you what's wrong and how to fix it.
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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:29 am Post subject:

If you want me to go ahead and say "yes," then I can do it. However, I might be lying to you. Python and other scripting languages basically just process data and take in variables when run on the web. The closest thing to a real application on the web is Java.

May I ask, what is the application supposed to do? We might be able to find an alternative solution.
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garyanderson · - Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 40

I just want to be able to create dynamic web pages with python instead of javascript that is all. if i create a tic tac toe game, the user can play tic tac toe in the python "shell" on the site. stuff like that. I saw this somehwere before and now i'm wondering if possibly it wasn't because i had python on my system. not too sure. but whatever. Thanks for all your help anyway. I appreaciate it very much.

on a another note: when is there going to be a python forum here. you have perl and another one. what about python. I have scripts i'd like to post in there and references to tutorials and the like. Thanks a lot.

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject:

Well if you just want to have Tic-Tac-Toe, then you can make it out of forms and whatnot. The only problem is, it won't be instantaneous like JavaScript.

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