title: Need Help to Configure apache Server to run CGI Script written in Python
body: <p>I cannot configure Apache Server to run CGI script written in python. I have searched the net and I have add all the information in "httpd.conf" file located at "C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf" the details of modifications are;</p>
  
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  <pre><code>&lt;Directory /&gt;
  Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI 
  AllowOverride None
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
  &lt;Directory "C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\cgi-bin"&gt;
  AllowOverride None
  Options None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>I have added above mentioned settings in "httpd.conf" file located at "C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf" and restarted the wamp server.</p>
  
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  <p>When ever I try to run my python CGI script browser just prints my code no error message. the link i am using is; <a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/first_cgi_script.py" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/cgi-bin/first_cgi_script.py</a></p>
  
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  <p>My code is;</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!c:\Python27\python.exe -u
  
  import time
  
  def printHeader( title ):
       print """Content-type: text/html
  
       &lt;?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?&gt;
       &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
       "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
       "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
       &lt;html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
       &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;%s&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
       &lt;body&gt;""" % title
  
  printHeader( "Current date and time" )
  print time.ctime( time.time() )
  print "&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;"
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>Help is required thanks.</p>