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Rich Pinder
rpinder at usc.edu
Thu Sep 23 08:42:18 EDT 2004
Again, thanks for trying to help here. I really dont want to upgrade this machine, but this problem is daunting. I've limited what the user that is defined in the script can do on the firebird database, but still this is not very comforting. I may indeed need to upgrade though thanks Rich > Byron Ellacott wrote: > >> Rich Pinder wrote: >> >>> Last first. Apache 1.3. Mod Python is configured and working just >>> fine. Database is being populated from forms. I stumbled on this >>> 'oddity' totally by accident - and really think it should be fixed !! >>> I see indeed how it should work, from your URL >> >> >> I took a quick gander at the docs for mod_python 2.7, and didn't spot >> anything immediately apparent to suggest it might work differently. >> Unfortunately, I don't actually have any Apache 1.3 installations >> around to play with, so the best I can say is that you might have >> found a bug. >> >> (Any particular reason to stay with Apache 1.3? There are several >> good ones, to be sure.) >> >>> But I have no stuff configured in any .htaccess files - and sure I >>> never saw THIS in the notes that came with samples I used. (see >>> below for ver numbers / dates for the components). >> >> >> A .htaccess is basically equivalent to a <Location> or <Directory> >> configuration section. I only used it because it's a lot easier for >> quick examples than altering the main config file and restarting. >> Rich Pinder wrote: > Thanks Byron for replying. > Last first. Apache 1.3. Mod Python is configured and working just > fine. Database is being populated from forms. I stumbled on this > 'oddity' totally by accident - and really think it should be fixed !! > I see indeed how it should work, from your URL > > But I have no stuff configured in any .htaccess files - and sure I > never saw THIS in the notes that came with samples I used. (see below > for ver numbers / dates for the components). > > Only stuff in my httpd.conf is: > >> #they python module is in here >> Include /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf > > > >> <Directory /home/httpd/htdocs/ctspython> >> AddHandler python-program .py >> PythonHandler mod_python.publisher >> # PythonHandler mptest >> PythonDebug On >> </Directory> > > > > And, since its Suse, the contents of the suse_loadmodule.conf is: > >> # Automatically generated by SuSEconfig on Thu Nov 14 16:21:58 PST 2002 >> # >> # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! >> # >> >> LoadModule python_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_python.so >> LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/apache/libssl.so > > > r > > > > >> Byron Ellacott wrote: >> >>>> AddHandler python-program .py >>>> PythonHandler mod_python.publisher >>> >>> >>> By your reply, you think by using this it should NOT show the text ? >> >> >> >> Definitely not. You're telling Apache there that .py should be >> handled as a python-program. >> >> In $DOCUMENTROOT/foo/.htaccess, I have: >> >> AddHandler python-program .py >> PythonHander mod_python.publisher >> >> In $DOCUMENTROOT/foo/foo.py, I have: >> >> import time >> def index(req): >> return time.asctime() >> >> See http://mlm.bpa.nu:8080/foo/foo.py and note that the source is not >> returned, and that the return is definitely dynamically generated. >> >> Is mod_python enabled in your web server? Perhaps you haven't >> restarted Apache since adding those configuration directives? Are >> you using Apache 1.3 or 2.0? Can you get it to do anything dynamic >> at all? > > > > > Rich Pinder wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply here Byron. >> I am indeed using the first option you mention: >> >>> <Directory /home/httpd/htdocs/ctspython> >>> AddHandler python-program .py >>> PythonHandler mod_python.publisher >>> PythonDebug On >>> </Directory> >> >> >> >> By your reply, you think by using this it should NOT show the text ? >> Version info: >> >>> Python 2.2 (#1, Mar 26 2002, 15:46:04) >>> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2 >> >> >> >>> drwxr-xr-x 4 1000 513 296 Nov 15 2002 >>> kinterbasdb-3.0.2 >> >> >> >> >> thanks for any thoughts >> >> rich >> >> Byron Ellacott wrote: >> >>> Rich Pinder wrote: >>> >>>> I'm using Apache 1.3 with Python (Kinterbas) to access a Firebird >>>> database. >>>> The .py script resides in a directory under the document root. If >>>> you enter the full url to the script file, the browser returns a >>>> textual representation of the script (complete with all my >>>> connection string info & password into the database !) >>>> What am I missing here ?? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Either you're using the Python publisher handler, in which case I'm >>> surprised that you ever see the text of the script, or you're >>> directly using a PythonHandler statement, in which case you can >>> install your Python modules anywhere on the Python path. >>> >>> In an Apache config file for a host, I have: >>> >>> <Location /budget> >>> SetHandler mod_python >>> Options -MultiViews >>> PythonDebug On >>> PythonAutoReload On >>> PythonInterpreter budget >>> PythonHandler bje.budgetweb >>> PythonOption SessionDbm /usr/share/budget/session.dbm >>> </Location> >>> >>> The "/var/www/budget" directory does not exist at all; there's >>> nothing that a user can fetch via URL that is not generated by the >>> bje.budgetweb module, which lives in /usr/local/python/someplace, >>> IIRC. In sys.path[], anyway. >>> >>> (That module then calls other modules based on patterns matched >>> against path_info, according to a configuration block. But that's >>> just my preference for how to arrange things.) >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mod_python mailing list >> Mod_python at modpython.org >> http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python >> > _______________________________________________ > Mod_python mailing list > Mod_python at modpython.org > http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python >
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