Re: [Gumstix-users] CGI with Python for web-server application

[ken s. <ken...@gm...>]

On 1/31/07, Mark Heneghan <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im a complete beginner with python. I was wondering could anyone help me out
> with some CGI stuff. Basically I have a few programs which are the basic
> control functions for a robot i have built. They work fine when run from
> terminal, but how do i go about being able to run these files through the
> Gumstix web server?

you're going to have to read about python, cgi, perhaps other topics.
http://www.python.org/doc/
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-cgi.html

here's a simple example:
stick these as executable in /var/www/cgi-bin
then http://gumstix-url/cgi-bin/test.py

# cat hello.py
#!/usr/bin/python

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "hello python\n"



# cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import cgi
import cgitb;cgitb.enable()

import os

cgi.test()