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Graham Dumpleton
graham.dumpleton at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 16:24:26 EDT 2009
Did you read that other tutorial I told you to read? See: http://webpython.codepoint.net/mod_python_publisher_uri_traversal The perhaps go back and work through that tutorial from start to finish instead of the one on the main mod_python site and then see if it makes more sense. Graham 2009/3/16 Jim McDonald <jimmcd at ns.sympatico.ca>: > Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > 2009/3/15 Jim McDonald <jimmcd at ns.sympatico.ca>: > > > OK. > > The mod_python.publisher problem is like this: > > Following the instructions in the mod_python manual, I created a test > directory under my Apache server root called 'Python' and added to > httpd.conf these lines: > > <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software > Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/Python/"> > AddHandler mod_python .py > PythonHandler mptest > PythonDebug On > </Directory> > > Mptest.py is, of course, the test script described in the manual. > > It worked as described. > > I then proceeded to the 'Tutorial' in the manual and substituted > mod_python.publisher for mptest in httpd.conf. I also added the form.htm > page to /htdocs and form.py to the Python directory. This resulted in a 404 > error--"The requested URL /Python/form.py/email was not found on this > server." Simpler scripts (like mptest.py) in the same directory fail in the > same way. > > No error shows up in Apache's error log. > > It's very puzzling to me that Apache is unable to find files that are > plainly present in the places where it says it can't find them. Any advice? > > > Post the contents of the form.py file. > > Also have a read of: > > http://webpython.codepoint.net/mod_python_tutorial > > It is a better tutorial. > > Graham > > > > Form.py goes like this: > > import smtplib > > WEBMASTER = "webmaster" #webmaster email > SMTP_SERVER = "SIRIUS" # That's the name of my server. > # The rest of the code is cut-and-pasted > # out of the tutorial. > def email(req, name, email, comment): > if not (name and email and comment): > return "A required parameter is missing, \ > please go back and complete the form." > msg = """\ > From: %s > SubjectL feedback > To: %s > > I have the following comment: > > %s > > Thank you, > > %s > > """ % (email, WEBMASTER, comment, name) > > # send it out > conn = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER) > conn.sendmail(email, (WEBMASTER), msg) > conn.quit() > > # provide feedback to the user > s = """\ > <html> > > Dear %s,<br> > Thank you for your kind comments. \n > We will get back to you shortly. > > </html>""" % name > > return s > > It takes input from this web form: > > <html> > Please provide feedback below: > <p> > <form action="Python/form.py/email" method="POST"> > > Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br> > Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br> > Comment: <textarea name="comment" rows=4 cols=20></textarea><br> > <input type="submit"> > > </form> > </html> > > I hope this sheds light. > > Thanks very much for your attention to this and for your quick response. > > I'll go and have a look now at the tutorial you mentioned. > > > This only has a chance of working if HTML file is in too directory of > server. Where have you put it? If in same directory as .py file, > change 'action' in form to be just 'form.py/email'. > > Please use reply-all and keep followups on the list > > It was in the root directory. I moved it to the Python directory, amended > the path as suggested, and ran it from there. Same result. > > > Hmmm, is your code file really called 'Form.py' as you said. Your > action is referencing 'form.py'. This isn't Windows, the case of names > is important. > > > Good point. No, it was actually called 'FORM.PY' > > Unhappily, though, changing the reference made no difference. > > I want to emphasize, though, that I have several python files in the the > Python directory (which is the subject of the httpd.conf directive), and, as > long as mod_python.publisher is the handler, Apache can't see any of them. > Even the charmingly simple mptest.py. > > Well, hardly any of them. There's one called index.py that runs when I > navigate to the Python directory and click on it. Its code looks like this: > def index(req): > return "We are in index()" > > def hello(req): > return "We are in hello()" > > The others not only refuse to run, they give a 404 error. I can't see what > distinguishes this one from the others in that respect. Do you see anything > special about it? > > > What exactly is the URL in the web browser when you access 'index.py' > and it works? > > The 'index.py' file is special. The documentation explains, as it > should about the 'index' function within a file being special. > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > Mod_python mailing list > Mod_python at modpython.org > http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python > > > > This is the URL: http://sirius/Python/index.py. > > I have to put that right in the address bar to run it. But when I type the > URLs of most of the other python programs--which are in the same > directory--, I get a 404 error. > There's another one (also from the mod_python manual--"7.1.1 > Introduction" where the mod_python.publisher explanation begins) which looks > like this: > > """ Publisher example """ > def say(req, what="NOTHING"): > return "I am saying %s" % what > > It works when the URL passes it an argument (like > "http://sirius/Python/nothing.py/say?what=as little as possible."), even a > null argument like "http://sirius/Python/nothing.py/say". But if we pass it > no argument ("http://sirius/Python/nothing.py"), we get that 404. > > The documentation on Traversal (7.1.2.1) says that 404 is what we get "if an > object in the path could not be found". So I suppose that that's what's > happening. But what object might it be? > > > -- >
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