You need an Apache config section to tell it what to use mod_python on and how. For example, in httpd.conf or a separate file in your conf.d directory for apache:
<Directory /var/www/html/> AddHandler mod_python .py PythonHandler test PythonDebug On </Directory> tells Apache to use mod_python on all .py files in my /var/www/html directory (which is also the document root on my server). Once that's loaded you should be able to run whatever your python code through a handler. For example, saving this as test.py: # #mod_python super basic test script # from mod_python import apache def handler(req): req.content_type = "text/html" req_file = basename(req.uri) if req.header_only: return apache.OK else: req.write("mod_python is working") return apache.OK # end of script This should print "mod_python is working" to the browser if you visit http://yoursite.com/test.py Remember that you need to restart/reload apache after any config change. The basic gist is that any .py file you load in the /var/www/html runs the script "test.py" (PythonHandler test) and executes the "handler()" function within the script. NOTE: this can be very non-intuitive, becuase running http://yoursite.com/test.py has exactly the same result as http;//yoursite.com/foo.py - because they're both simply running the handler script, test.py, for ALL .py files in the directory. That means that your PythonHandler script needs to dispatch other scripts or load special pages in order to get different code to run. Also note that there are some pre-written Handler scripts that come with mod_python that can often do most of your work for you. You'll probably want a good tutorial on using mod_python to make sense of all this, because it's not really intuitive and it works differently than traditional cgi programming. Take a look at: http://modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/ to get you started, it's a lot more detailed and will probably answer your questions better. -Jay On Thursday 13 October 2005 3:49 pm, nitin chandra wrote: > Hi!... > i am new to Python and i want to develop a website with forms; data > submitted through forms will be stored in PostgreSQL. > I am working on derivant of FC3, OpenLX. > I have Apache 2.0.54 version installed, which is pre-configured with > mod_python. > how do i load and view my .py/.html web page (file) on the browser. > i need the initial hand holding/guidance of how to start, configure , and > develop modules. > thank in advance. > Nitin Chandra _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor