Hello all,
I am working on a very simple CGI script. The site I want to use it on is a
shared linux host, but I confirmed that .py files in the right dir with the
right permissions and shebang execute just fine, Hello World sort of tests were
successful.
So now something a little more involved:
#!/usr/bin/python2.4
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
thefile = open("template.html", "r")
templatestuff = thefile.read()
thefile.close()
print "Content-Type: text/html"
if templatestuff:
print "Found it"
title1 = "I am a title!"
body1 = "I am some hot content"
print templatestuff % (title1, body1)
"template.html" is in the same dir, and is simply:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html>
<html>
<head>
<title> %s </title>
</head>
<body>
%s
</body>
</html>
If I run this script without the 3 lines after the import line, it works fine
(namely I get an error that templatestuff is not defined, as would be
expected). With those lines however, I am getting a 500 Internal Server Error.
Since I am not shown an error page with cgitb, this would likely mean a syntax
error. However, if I run the script locally, it works just fine, printing out
the HTML with variables filled in. Now for the odd part: If I change that open
line to "thefile = open("asdas", "r")", I get "IOError: [Errno 2] No such file
or directory: 'asdas'
". So it seems the script is finding the template file when I have it as above,
but is throwing something when it tries to open it. I have confirmed the file
has the right permissions, I have even tried it with all permissions set on
that file.
I am just totally baffled why I cannot open any files from the script.
Any ideas?
-Sam
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