: Parse Python script on Apache virtual host I have an up and running Apache server working with PHP on a Centos 6 server. Apache was installed using yum -y install httpd mod_ssl. I now

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I have an up and running Apache server working with PHP on a Centos 6 server. Apache was installed using yum -y install httpd mod_ssl. I now wish to add Python.

I installed Python as follows:

wget python.org/ftp/python/3.3.5/Python-3.3.5.tar.xz tar xf Python-3.3.5.tar.xz
cd Python-3.3.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
make && make altinstall


I installed mod_python using yum install mod_python.

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf includes the following line Include conf.d/*.conf, so then I know that /etc/httpd/conf.d/python.conf has been included. I made no changes to /etc/httpd/conf.d/python.conf, and the only un-commented directives are:

LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so
<Directory "/var/www/manual/mod/mod_python">
<Files *.html>
SetHandler default-handler
</Files>
</Directory>


I then added the following VirtualHost.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/python/html
<Directory /var/www/python/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
PythonDebug On
</Directory>
AddHandler mod_python .py
#DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.py
</VirtualHost>


If I access example.com/testphp.php, it is parsed as PHP, however, if I access example.com/testpython.py, it returns a 404 Not Found error. If I comment out PythonHandler mod_python.publisher, it returns the Python script un-parsed.

How do I use Python on a virtual host?

EDIT. If testpython.py consists of script print( 'xxxx' ), I get the 404 error. If it consists of the following, it returns Test successful.

def index(req):
return "Test successful";


Both produce the following notice in /var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Mon Dec 07 07:03:14 2015] [notice] mod_python (pid=16441, interpreter='example.com'): Importing module '/var/www/python/html/testpython.py'

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