Lighttpd when running python CGI reports - 403 forbidden - Ubuntu

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                          I am starting a lighttpd service in my ubuntu.My idea here is to serve a python script through CGI.
But, when I do this I get 403 forbidden? Please help how to debug and what am I missing here?

    vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
    server.document-root  "/home/httpd"

Enable, CGI in lighttpd.

    vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
    
    server.modules = (
        "mod_access",
        "mod_alias",
        "mod_compress",
        "mod_redirect",
        "mod_cgi",
        "mod_rewrite",
    )

In order to get lighttpd to recognize any python scripts we need to add the following new section at the end of the file.

    $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin/" {
      cgi.assign = (".py" => "/usr/bin/python")
    }

Give appropriate permission to the root folder.

    # chown www-data /home/httpd/cgi-bin
    # chgrp www-data /home/httpd/cgi-bin

Now, write the hello.py

    vi /home/httpd/cgi-bin/hello.py
    
    #! /usr/bin/python
    #
    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
    print '  '
    print ' Raspberry  Pi  
     
    for count in range(1,100)
    print'Hello World...'
    print "/p>  
    Finally, restart the lighttpd service.

#service lighttpd restart

  

      But, when I try to access the page it says- 
    
    403 forbidden

Here is my folder with permission /home/httpd.

    /home/httpd$ ls -l
    total 8
    drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Apr  3 17:56 cgi-bin
    drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data root     4096 Apr  3 16:41 html

Here is the hello.py

    /home/httpd/cgi-bin$ ls -l 
    total 4
    -rwxrwxrwx 1 root www-data 244 Apr  3 17:56 hello.py

The log says that it is still looking for php, html files rather than my python binary?

    read(7, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: 10.0.2.15\r"..., 4159) = 328
    stat("/home/httpd/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
    stat("/home/httpd/index.php", 0x7ffee411b9f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    stat("/home/httpd/index.html", 0x7ffee411b9f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    stat("/home/httpd/index.lighttpd.html", 0x7ffee411b9f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    setsockopt(7, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, , 4) = 0
    writev(7, [{iov_base="HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden\r\nContent-"..., iov_len=134}, {iov_base="
                      
                    

Asked by tannoy connect (299 rep)

Apr 11, 2020, 02:32 AM
Last activity: Apr 27, 2020, 11:55 PM

Lighttpd when running python CGI reports - 403 forbidden - Ubuntu

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