Python3 Advanced Tutorial 7 - CGI Programming

This is tutorial covering how to set up a basic web server on Ubuntu and use python for our server-side scripts. All Links and Slides will be in the description. Subscribe for more cool stuff!

--Commands--
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo a2enmod cgi
sudo service apache2 restart

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[KevinMThomas]

Draps your Python tutorials are simply the best there are anywhere, period.  You can't find this info in a book as clear as you do.  I wish other instructors were like you.

[huucyber]

Thank you so much, you saved my life, before your video, I couldn't even run CGI file on Browser

[qwe]

Yes, I understand cgi programming now! Thank you

[alexcz]

Merci beaucoup ! it works and I ve learned many important things with your videos !!

[teddymarkov]

This video is priceless! Thank you. Now I am happy too :D

[phillipvance]

So is this how you manually do server side python without a framework like Django/flask and they are abstracting all this away or is it something different?

[LoneWolf]

In the command line can I tell Apache to stop using the CGI? In the tutorial you showed "sudo a2enmod cgi", is that way to reverse this? Better yet can I put everything back to default in the Linux operating system? I have a CompTIA A+ certification so I'm curious as a computer technicians point of view. Is that a good tutorial or reference (free) that can point to this type of CGI programming in Python that you showed in this video?

[johnblack]

excellent i just wish that i could find the text of the source code. i love python especially the socket and cgi.

[gery]

It was displaying the contents of my .py file. I added all the directory info to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf restarted the service and it was functional.

[ShermanSitter]

Just curious, why delete the 'html' from the path and use the root www folder? It seems cleaner to keep things separate. Any recommendations on best practices for naming and separating folders?

[lawrencetan]

Thanks for your video. It helped. Can you please tell me what screencasting softwares you used to record this video on a Linux computer ? Thanks.

[khaoulaabaidi]

I've used Ubunto and it works well, but i could'nt display .py using apache with windows 7, i receive as error : [cgi:error] [pid 7728:tid 852] (OS 5)Access refused. : [client 127.0.0.1:59880] couldn't create child process: 720005: hello.py
[Wed Jan 08 21:41:43.342204 2020] [cgi:error] [pid 7728:tid 852] (OS 5)Acces refused. : [client 127.0.0.1:59880] AH01223: couldn't spawn child process: "

[rishikeshpandey]

My cgi-bin directory is in /usr/lib/cups/ directory and you are moving all python files to /var/www and in configuration file also you are changing root directory to /var/www. So do i need to copy my cgi-bin directory to /var/www to run my webserver because apache is not getting restart and it is also not generating any error. what to do?

[himanshupant]

What would be the best way to separate my HTML and CSS from python????

[ryouko]

Can someone please explain on how to execute CGI in python Windows?
I want to retrieve and store all my form input values into a mysql database. I came across CGI for this task and apparently I need to install apache for it. Does anyone know how to do it step by step?
I'm so frustrated and it's taking too much of my time

[unev]

Thank you for sharing. Where are you from if I may ask?

[j.d.]

Great CGI explanation, thank you!
But man, why do you use vim? You need to learn at least some of its basics to speed coding there, e.g operations you could use are: to speed up deleting few rows or copying a row. Just check James Powell tutorials of python which he does in vim as well to see how effective it can be, or use another editor.

[datextrenone]

why the form not showing up on mt webpage, it just just say "Hello Program!"
Somebody please help

[gabriel-quintiliano]

is this script you show running "front-end" python... kinda replacing javascript?
thanks in advance(i'm a very beginner)

[luongpham]

Is there any suggest for me about coding Python on SDN? (I mean topology - Ryu - Mininet)