Running Python Code on Xampp on windows platform

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XAMPP-PYTHON-WINDOWS

I have installed Xampp. I'm running the apache web server and mySql service. I want to host my python code on my web server. However, I am having a hard time setting up python with Xampp. I read about modwsgi, downloaded it and pasted it in the modules folder. I have python 3.2 installed on my C drive.

Please let me know what should I do next, as in where should i paste my python files and how should I execute them through a web browser? I should be able to do this:

http://74.xxx.xxx.xx/python/test.py (localhost/python/test.py)

and this should execute the python code.

When I try to do the above, i get this:

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 500

74.194.129.16 3/2/2011 2:11:16 AM Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

All the help is highly appreciated.

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2 Answers

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The official releases of mod_wsgi don't support Python 3.2 so you cant use it. To use Python 3.2 you would need to compile mod_wsgi from source code in subversion repository which I would suggest is probably going to be a bit beyond what you are able to do based on problems you are having above. So, use Python 2.6/2.7. Also see:

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationOnWindows http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/DownloadTheSoftware?tm=2#Windows_Binary_Downloads

As Daniel suggested I would suggest you use Flask. You could also use web2py which is another framework which is easy for newbies. I would also suggest that if you are only starting to learn this stuff that you not use Apache/mod_wsgi and instead just use the inbuilt development server provided by the Python web framework you use. That will save you a lot of headaches initially if you know nothing about Apache.

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mod_wsgi doesn't run Python scripts like that. It's a method of hosting long-running Python applications in separate processes, which are dispatched to by Apache. And anyway, you don't just install Apache modules by "pasting" them into a folder.

If you just want to run Python scripts by giving their path to Apache, which by the way is a pretty horrible way to do it, you just want to configure Apache so that it treats Python scripts as CGI. There's plenty of documentation on how to do this.

But a much better way is to serve your code is by writing a proper WSGI service, probably by using one of the many minimal frameworks around - my favourite is Flask.