[Htmltmpl] Permission denied if precompiling templates is enabled

[Andreas M. <a.m...@pe...>]

Hello !

I just tried to use the htmltmpl package for Python. I wrote a small
test cgi:

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#!C:\Programme\Python\Python.exe

import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
from htmltmpl import TemplateManager, TemplateProcessor

# Compile or load already precompiled template.
template = TemplateManager().prepare("template.htm")
tproc = TemplateProcessor()

# Set the title.
tproc.set("title", "Login")

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
print tproc.process(template)
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But I only get this error message in my browser:


IOError Python 2.2: C:\Programme\Python\Python.exe
Tue Apr 16 22:35:03 2002 

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function
calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

 C:\apache\cgi-bin\test.py  
    8 
 
    9 # Compile or load already precompiled template.
 
   10 template = TemplateManager(precompile=1).prepare("template.htm")
 
   11 tproc = TemplateProcessor()
 
   12 
 
template = <function template at 0x00A38058>, TemplateManager = <class
htmltmpl.TemplateManager at 0x00A46FD8>, precompile undefined 


 C:\Programme\Python\lib\site-packages\htmltmpl.py in
prepare(self=<htmltmpl.TemplateManager instance at 0x00A4D160>,
file='template.htm') 
  202             if self.is_precompiled(file):
 
  203                 try:
 
  204                     precompiled = self.load_precompiled(file)
 
  205                 except PrecompiledError, template:
 
  206                     print >> sys.stderr, "Htmltmpl: bad
precompiled "\
 
precompiled undefined, self = <htmltmpl.TemplateManager instance at
0x00A4D160>, self.load_precompiled = <bound method
TemplateManager.load_precompiled of <htmltmpl.TemplateManager instance
at 0x00A4D160>>, file = 'template.htm' 


 C:\Programme\Python\lib\site-packages\htmltmpl.py in
load_precompiled(self=<htmltmpl.TemplateManager instance at 0x00A4D160>,
file=<open file 'template.htmc', mode 'rb' at 0x00A5A238>) 
  339         finally:
 
  340             if file:
 
  341                 self.lock_file(file, LOCK_UN)
 
  342                 file.close()
 
  343             if remove_bad and os.path.isfile(filename):
 
self = <htmltmpl.TemplateManager instance at 0x00A4D160>, self.lock_file
= <bound method TemplateManager.lock_file of <htmltmpl.TemplateManager
instance at 0x00A4D160>>, file = <open file 'template.htmc', mode 'rb'
at 0x00A5A238>, global LOCK_UN = 3 


 C:\Programme\Python\lib\site-packages\htmltmpl.py in
lock_file(self=<htmltmpl.TemplateManager instance at 0x00A4D160>,
file=<open file 'template.htmc', mode 'rb' at 0x00A5A238>, lock=3) 
  282                 msvcrt.locking(fd, msvcrt.LK_LOCK, 1)
 
  283             elif lock == LOCK_UN:
 
  284                 msvcrt.locking(fd, msvcrt.LK_UNLCK, 1)
 
  285             else:
 
  286                 raise TemplateError, "BUG: bad lock in lock_file"
 
global msvcrt = <module 'msvcrt' (built-in)>, msvcrt.locking = <built-in
function locking>, fd = 3, msvcrt.LK_UNLCK = 0 


IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied 
      __doc__ = 'I/O operation failed.' 
      __getitem__ = <bound method IOError.__getitem__ of
<exceptions.IOError instance at 0x00A4A5E0>> 
      __init__ = <bound method IOError.__init__ of <exceptions.IOError
instance at 0x00A4A5E0>> 
      __module__ = 'exceptions' 
      __str__ = <bound method IOError.__str__ of <exceptions.IOError
instance at 0x00A4A5E0>> 
      args = (13, 'Permission denied') 
      errno = 13 
      filename = None 
      strerror = 'Permission denied' 


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When I run the skript in a shell then I receive the correct html text.

I use Apache under Windows XP, my httpd.conf looks like this:

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/apache/cgi-bin/"

    #
    # "c:/apache/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your
ScriptAliased
    # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
    #
    <Directory "/apache/cgi-bin/">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>


If I disable the precompiling (template =
TemplateManager(precompile=0).prepare("template.htm") ) then I have no
problems.

Sorry if this is a ridiculous question but I'm not very familiar with
configuring apache and writing cgi scripts.

Thank you
Andreas Martin