running a python script on the web?

redbot · Aug 11, 2022

I was given two files, an .html and .py to host along with a database.

The .html calls the .py like so:
HTML:
<form action="generator.py" method="post">
When the form is submitted, I get a "405 Not Allowed" error.

I'm not sure about hosting .py files over the web. Is this something people actually do?

eva2000 · Aug 11, 2022

Any documentation for that script you can link to ? What's the script for? I don't really have any experience with Python used in this way. I do know you can't run Python like that on Nginx as is without additional apps/setup AFAIK.

Using NGINX and NGINX Plus as an Application Gateway with uWSGI and Django | NGINX Plus and Setting up Django and your web server with uWSGI and nginx — uWSGI 2.0 documentation

NGINX 0.8.40 and later (and all releases of NGINX Plus) includes native support for passing traffic from users to Python applications via the uwsgi protocol. If you download NGINX Open Source binaries or source from our official repositories, or NGINX Plus from the customer portal, you don’t have to do anything to enable support for the uwsgi protocol – NGINX and NGINX Plus support uswgi by default.

Configuring the uWSGI application container itself is outside the scope of this document,; refer to the excellent Quickstart for Python/WSGI applications for more information.

Django is probably the most commonly used Python web framework, so for simplicity’s sake the example uses a Django‑based setup for the Python app. The Django documentation provides extensive information on how to configure a Django environment.
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from Setting up Django and your web server with uWSGI and nginx — uWSGI 2.0 documentation

A web server faces the outside world. It can serve files (HTML, images, CSS, etc) directly from the file system. However, it can’t talk directly to Django applications; it needs something that will run the application, feed it requests from web clients (such as browsers) and return responses.

A Web Server Gateway Interface - WSGI - does this job. WSGI is a Python standard.

uWSGI is a WSGI implementation. In this tutorial we will set up uWSGI so that it creates a Unix socket, and serves responses to the web server via the uwsgi protocol. At the end, our complete stack of components will look like this:

the web client <-> the web server <-> the socket <-> uwsgi <-> Django
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redbot · Aug 11, 2022

Hah, no documentation, a friend wrote it. The script takes values posted from the .html file, runs them through the sql database, and spits them out all nice and formatted. Supposedly anyway, I haven't gotten it to work.

Ugh, looks like I'll need an alternate port. Maybe I'll just rewrite it in php

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