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Raspbian: set up Apache with CGI
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| #! /bin/sh | |
| # Let the user write to the HTML directory | |
| sudo chown pi /var/www/html | |
| # Set up Apache | |
| sudo apt update | |
| sudo apt install apache2 | |
| sudo a2enmod cgi | |
| sudo apache2ctl graceful | |
| sudo tee /usr/lib/cgi-bin/handler.cgi <<'EOF' >/dev/null | |
| #! /usr/bin/python | |
| import cgitb; cgitb.enable() | |
| import sys | |
| sys.path.insert(0, "/var/www/html") | |
| import handler | |
| EOF | |
| sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/handler.cgi | |
| tee /var/www/html/handler.py <<'EOF' >/dev/null | |
| #! /usr/bin/python | |
| import cgi | |
| form = cgi.FieldStorage() | |
| print("Content-Type: text/html") | |
| print("") | |
| print("<p>") | |
| print("The value of fred is:") | |
| print(form.getfirst("fred")) | |
| print("</p>") | |
| cgi.print_form(form) | |
| EOF | |
| chmod +x /var/www/html/handler.py | |
| tee /var/www/html/sample.html <<'EOD' >/dev/null | |
| <html> | |
| <head><title>Sample Form</title></head> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1>Sample Form</h1> | |
| <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/handler.cgi"> | |
| <input type="text" name="fred"> | |
| <input type="submit"> | |
| </form> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> | |
| EOD | |
| echo | |
| echo "All done!" | |
| echo "A sample form can be loaded at http://localhost/sample.html" | |
| echo "Your CGI handler is in /var/www/html/handler.py" |
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