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I am having a problem getting python scripts to execute within Lighttpd and cgi-bin. I have found similar issues within stackoverflow (i.e. Lighttpd and cgi python) and other websites, but none fully pertain to my configuration. I can execute the standalone python script by issuing "python flash.py" without any problems.
A key point that might help solve this is the fact that everything was working fine prior to me running "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade". I have experimented by messing with permissions on certain files, and messing with the config files, but none of which helped.
I have since put everything back to the state at which it was just after running the updates. This is new territory for me and I'm just not educated enough to find anything obvious. As it stands, here is my current configuration.
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_compress",
"mod_redirect",
# "mod_auth",
# "mod_rewrite",
)
server.document-root = "/var/www"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port = 80
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )
# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
#auth.backend = "plain"
#auth.backend.plain.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/.lighttpdpwd"
#auth.require = ( "/var/www" =>
#(
#.method. => "basic",
#.realm. => "Authentication required",
#.require. => "user=admin"
#)
#)
etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-cgi.conf
# /usr/share/doc/lighttpd/cgi.txt
server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin/" {
cgi.assign = ( ".py" => "/usr/bin/python" )
}
## Warning this represents a security risk, as it allow to execute any file
## with a .pl/.py even outside of /usr/lib/cgi-bin.
#
#cgi.assign = (
# ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl",
# ".py" => "/usr/bin/python",
#)
/var/www/cgi-bin/flash.py
#Dog Treat Dispenser. Flash Code
import RPIO
import time
import cgi
FLASHER = 22
#ADD CLICKER!
RPIO.setup(FLASHER , RPIO.OUT) #Set FLASHER pin as OUTPUT
for x in range(0, 5): #Flash for 2 seconds
RPIO.output(FLASHER, True)
#ADD CLICKER SUBROUTINE
time.sleep(.500)
RPIO.output(FLASHER, False)
#ADD CLICKER SUBROUTINE
time.sleep(.500)
# reset every channel that has been set up by this program,
# and unexport interrupt gpio interfaces
RPIO.cleanup()
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print "Location: http://10.143.141.164"
print
print "<html><head>"
print "<title>Flash!</title>"
print "</head>"
print "<body>"
print "<h1>Flash!</h1>"
print "</body>"
print "</html>"
After doing a ton of research, and getting nowhere, I'm at a loss. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. If there is anything I have missed, please let me know and I will do my best to get it to you.
Thank you!
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This should work:
server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )
cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl",
".py" => "/usr/bin/python" )
What version of python are you running? Did you upgrade and install python3? If so you will need to install python2 as well and change /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2
Did you set mimetypes for python in your mimetypes.conf files for Lighttpd? it should look like this:
".py" => "text/x-python",
".pyc" => "application/x-python-code",
".pyo" => "application/x-python-code",
Did you check lighttpd's error logs before make any changes? The logs are stored in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
What is the exact issue that you are having? Do the files try to download when you navigate to the directory? This is difficult to troubleshoot without more information.
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