Hello, As I've mentioned on the list before, I'm very new to Python and programming in general. Now I'm trying my hand at writing very very simple CGI scripts. I basically wanted to try play with cgi scripting as I feel my way around Python. I'm uploading to my account on my university's server.
Unfortunately, I error out whenever I do 'import cgi'. I'm hoping to receive some advice! Thanks in advance for reading all this. Facts: 1. From what I can tell, the server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Apache 1.3.33. 2. I have successfully executed .cgi scripts that only included printing text or html. 3. I've tried adding form validation with cgi.FieldStorage() and it would run in the server command line okay as .py, without syntax errors. 4. However, these same scripts including cgi.FieldStorage() would fail to execute when uploaded as a cgi script. I get this error: "CGI Script Failure The web page you attempted to access seems to have a problem: the script failed before sending any headers. " 4. I tested by adding only 'import cgi' to one of my html printing files that worked, to confirm that it was the sole problem. That script failed - so I knew the module import was it. 5. I then used try: import cgi, except: traceback.format_exc(None) I received this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "cgi_errors.cgi", line 9, in import cgi File "/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/cgi.py", line 40, in import urllib File "/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/urllib.py", line 26, in import socket File "/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 46, in import _socket ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_socket.so: symbol inet_aton: referenced symbol not found 6. From the command line I typed python2.6, and then asked for sys.path, sys.modules["cgi"], sys.modules["socket"], and sys.modules["urllib"], and sys.modules["_socket"] and this is what it gave me: '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python26.zip', '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6', '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/site-packages', '/afs/umbc.edu/common/python26/i386_linux26/lib/python2.6/site-packages' <module 'cgi' from '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/cgi.pyc'> <module 'urllib' from '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/urllib.pyc'> <module 'socket' from '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/socket.pyc'> <module '_socket' from '/usr/local/depot/python.1250025008/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_socket.so'> Any advice would be much appreciated! - Kris _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
