Configuring Apache Tomcat 6.0 to run python script inside cgi-bin on linux system?

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I have a system with Ubuntu10.04 Operating System.
I have my Apache tomcat(6.0.29) installed at /usr/local/tomcat/
I have one python script hello.py
I would like to run this python script inside cgi-bin.
Python is at /usr/bin/python
My application I am running is eegis which is running fine.
http://localhost:8080/eegis/index.html

I have already searched in net a lot it is saying you have to configure web.xml with following configuration.

<servlet> 
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> 
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class> 
<init-param> 
<param-name>debug</param-name> 
<param-value>0</param-value> 
</init-param> 
<init-param> 
<param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name> 
<param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value> 
</init-param> 
<init-param> 
<param-name>executable</param-name> 
<param-value>/usr/bin/python</param-value> 
</init-param> 
<init-param> 
<param-name>passShellEnvironment</param-name> 
<param-value>true</param-value> 
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> 
</servlet>

I have uncommented this also

<servlet-mapping> 
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> 
<url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern> 
</servlet-mapping>

I have done this but still I am not able to run python script.
While trying http://localhost:8080/eegis/cgi-bin/hello.py

I am getting this error

HTTP Status 404 - /eegis/cgi-bin/
type Status report
message /eegis/cgi-bin/
description The requested resource (/eegis/cgi-bin/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.29

The problem has been resolved now. Still I will share my experience. The first problem was with my python script I had forgot to insert "\n\n" (print "Content-type: text/html\n\n") [mid it \n\n immediatetle after header without any spaces (print "Content-type: text/html \n\n") this will not work]at the end of the content description header. Second I have saved the file as .py but it should be .cgi every thing else was fine. My scripts are executing now. Thanks — LotusCloud

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The problem has been resolved now. Still I will share my experience. The first problem was with my python script I had forgot to insert "\n\n" (print "Content-type: text/html\n\n") [mid it \n\n immediatetle after header without any spaces (print "Content-type: text/html \n\n") this will not work]at the end of the content description header. Second I have saved the file as .py but it should be .cgi every thing else was fine. My scripts are executing now. Thanks

Configuring Apache Tomcat 6.0 to run python script inside cgi-bin on linux system?

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