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56 | 11.2.7 Installing your CGI script on a <span class="Unix">Unix</span> system</A> | |
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60 | Read the documentation for your HTTP server and check with your local | |
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62 | installed; usually this is in a directory <span class="file">cgi-bin</span> in the server tree. | |
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65 | Make sure that your script is readable and executable by ``others''; the | |
66 | <span class="Unix">Unix</span> file mode should be <code>0755</code> octal (use "<tt class="samp">chmod 0755 | |
67 | <var>filename</var></tt>"). Make sure that the first line of the script contains | |
68 | <code>#!</code> starting in column 1 followed by the pathname of the Python | |
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73 | #!/usr/local/bin/python | |
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77 | Make sure the Python interpreter exists and is executable by ``others''. | |
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80 | Make sure that any files your script needs to read or write are | |
81 | readable or writable, respectively, by ``others'' -- their mode | |
82 | should be <code>0644</code> for readable and <code>0666</code> for writable. This | |
83 | is because, for security reasons, the HTTP server executes your script | |
84 | as user ``nobody'', without any special privileges. It can only read | |
85 | (write, execute) files that everybody can read (write, execute). The | |
86 | current directory at execution time is also different (it is usually | |
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91 | anything interesting. | |
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94 | If you need to load modules from a directory which is not on Python's | |
95 | default module search path, you can change the path in your script, | |
96 | before importing other modules. For example: | |
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100 | import sys | |
101 | sys.path.insert(0, "/usr/home/joe/lib/python") | |
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106 | (This way, the directory inserted last will be searched first!) | |
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