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CGI code not working: Internal Server 500

I am newbie to Apache, and I am trying to move one web application (which is html and python scripts) from one server to another. There is the html file which is calling the python script, and I had placed the cg-bin folder in the www folder, so when I lunch the HTML which calls the python script, then it will generate 500 Internal Server Error.
Any support?
Thanks in advance for your support,

how to deploy python app on iis windows server?

hi i am trying to deploy my python app on windows2012 server with iis .
i follow the process of add application in website on specific folder than changing handler mapping settings in adding handler script putting python path in it.
when i am trying to open it code show me text of app.py instead of running it.
only difference when i tried is that in his python code he started with
#!iusr
and i started directly have my python code.
source where i tried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7whncKjSXK0
anyone have any clue
thanks for help

First, create python site for example mine is hello.py and place it under C:\pythonsite folder:
print('Content-Type: text/plain')
print('')
print('Hello, world!')
now open iis manager.
add a new site. select your python site folder and add bindings.
now click on the handler mapping from the middle pane.
in the handler mapping window select "add script map" from the action pane.
- add below details:
request path: *.py
executable: C:\Python37-32\python.exe %s %s
name:python
"C:\Python37-32\" is your python folder.
click request restrictions and make sure that the checkbox is unchecked.
when you click on ok it will open a prompt click "yes".
Note: make sure directory browsing is enabled and your python and site folder has iis_iusrs and iusr permission assigned with full control. you install iis CGI feature.
browse the site.

Run script on a webhosting server

I built a website in plain HTML and CSS. For quicker modification of the contents in the HTML file, I wrote a python script to dynamically change the file (open file, write to it, close). Is it possible to run this script or an executable file on a web hosting server in order to modify the HTML file? (I know, it might not be the best approach to the problem).

Django deployed app/project can't write to a file

I am working on a Django based application whose location on my disk is home/user/Documents/project/application. Now this application takes in some values from the user and writes them into a file located in a folder which is under the project directory i.e home/user/Documents/project/folder/file. While running the development server using the command python manage.py runserver everything worked fine, however after deployment the application/views.py which accesses the file via open('folder/path','w') is not able to access it anymore, because by default it looks in var/www folder when deployed via apache2 server using mod_wsgi.
Now, I am not putting the folder into /var/www because it is not a good practise to put any python code there as it might become readable clients which is a major security threat. Please let me know, how can I point the deployed application to read and write to correct file.

The real solution is to install your data files in /srv/data/myapp or some such so that you can give the webserver user correct permissions to only those directories. Whether you choose to put your code in /var/www or not, is a separate question, but I would suggest putting at least your wsgi file there (and, of course, specifying your <DocumentRoot..> correctly.

Running a python script on my hosting

I am a newbie to web development and Python. Since I dont have the vocabulary to ask the exact question, here is a summary of what need to do:
I have a small test python cgi script, which i have uploaded to /home/username/pyscripts which is above the /home/username/domain.com
I need a link I can type in the URL bar, which will lead to the script being executed and the content displayed in the browser.
Can someone tell me If i need to create an html file, and if yes how to get it to point to the python script The domain folder has wordpress installed. My hosting is dreamhost shared hosting
The script is there below:
#! /usr/bin/python
print 'Content-type: text/html'
print ''
print 'Hello, World!

Heroku is a good place to host and python scripts.
Pre-req
pythonscripts.py
procfile
requirements.txt
and After add, commit and push the scripts to heroku app. Just run the following command on terminal to run the scripts.
heroku run python your_scripts.py
More if you want to run this scripts on a schedule timing. then heroku provides lots of adds-on. just search it on heroku

Usually you'd need to put your python script under the /home/username/bin/ folder. I'm not sure if your particular webhost actually allows you to run your Python script outside of the /bin folder (normally this is not the case), but if yes then you can substitute the /pyscripts folder.
The URL would look something like this: www.domain.com/bin/mypythonscript.py
Or with the pyscripts folder (if possible with your webhost): www.domain.com/pyscripts/mypythonscript.py
You don't need to create an HTML file as the first content line that you print in your Python script is telling the user's browser to display the output of the script like an HTML file. You simply type the URL to your python script into your browser and then the server runs the script and outputs it as a text/HTML file, which your browser then reads and displays.
Also, don't forget - you need to grant execute/read/write permission to your Python script file after you upload it to the correct folder on your webhost server or it won't run at all. Usually this is done through your upload utility like Filezilla or using a shell command like chmod.

Well dream host support python. Check if they are providing shell access deployment. All you need is create .py file and run it.
Then consider to use Django or Jinja2 like framwork. Its easy for creating web application