python not executed and code is shown literal in the page

Question

In ubuntu 12.04 i have this basic http server:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

And this file demo.py

#!/usr/bin/python2.7
print \"Co         


        

Answer 1

SimpleHTTPServer can only serve static pages, not CGI scripts. You could use CGIHTTPServer instead.

Use this only for local testing setups; these servers have hardly been battletested on the wider web and are almost certainly not secure.