Getting python to work, Internal Server Error

Question

I\'m trying to get Python scripts, called from a web browser, to work. I keep getting the error:

500 Internal Server Error

When I check my err

Answer 1

If you have configured Apaches httpd file correctly then you might be getting this error for following two reasons.Make sure these are correct.

1. Include '#!/usr/bin/python' or '#!C:/Python27/python' or accordingly in your script as first line.
2. Make sure there is space after print "Content-type: text/html" ie.
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
   Hope this helps!!

Answer 2

do you have something like this at the top before you print anything else?

print "Content-type: text/html\n"

If you already have this, then post your code.

Answer 3

OK last guess:

Trying changing that shebang line to:

#!/usr/bin/env python

or

#!/usr/bin/local/env python

It would also be helpful to know your platform / hosting provider.

Answer 4

You can also get some of this same foolishness if you have DOS style end of lines on a linux web server. (That just chewed up about two hours of my morning today.) Off to update my vim.rc on this windows box that I need to use.

Answer 5

This ended up being a dos2unix issue for me. Ran dos2unix test.py test.py and it worked. The \r\n combinations were the problem. Had to yum install dos2unix to get it installed.

Answer 6

This is the exact behavior you would get if your Python script does not have the executable permission set.

Try:

chmod a+x foo.py

(where foo.py is your script name).

See the Apache tutorial for more information.