Trouble running python script as cgi under apache (ubuntu 12)

Question

Disclosure: I searched a lot, and I don\'t think my question (for my configuration) is answered here. For example run python script as cgi apache server doesn\'t answer it.

Answer 1

What could also cause these symptoms, is that you don't have the apache2 cgi module loaded. This will also generate a log message in /var/log/apache2/access.log with an HTTP 304 error:

192.168.2.3 - - [26/Jul/2014:11:56:34 +0200] "GET /cgi-bin/hello.py HTTP/1.1" 304 179 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36"

Check loaded modules with:

apache2ctl -M

Look for:

cgid_module (shared)

If it's not loaded, load it with:

a2enmod cgid

Then restart apache2:

service apache2 reload

Then refresh your browser and purge your browser cache (CTRL + F5). And/or restart your browser, to be sure it's requesting the actual page, instead of using the browser cache.