Here are the steps you should make if you want to use python scripts on
IIS 7:
- Please make sure Python is installed properly or refer to Python
Notes – 1 :
Setup
for installation steps.
- Make sure CGI module is installed in IIS 7.
Control Panel -> Programs -> Program and Features
-> Turn Windows features on and off -> Internet Information
Services -> World Wide Web Services -> Application
Development Features -> CGI module (Ensure that it is
selected).
- Add web application for Python, In IIS Manager, right click
Sites –> Add Web Site..
- In the Add Web Site dialog box, set Site name e.g.:
PythonTest, and make it pointing to some folder like C:\PythonTest,
then click OK
- In Features View, open Handler Mappings
- On the left pane click Add Script Map …
- In Request path, put “*.py” as the script files extension, In
Executable select &qu ot;C:\Python25\Python.exe %s %s", or
change it according to your Python installation path. (The two “%s”
after the executable are required for console-based script
interpreters but would not be required for an Internet Server API
[ISAPI]-based script interpreter). Then give the script mapping an
appropriate Name, like Python. Click OK.
- Create a test.py into the virtual directory (C:\PythonTest), and
copy the following script into it.
print
print ‘Status: 200 OK’
print ‘Content-type: text/html’
print
print ‘<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Python Sample
CGI</TITLE></HEAD>’ print ‘<BODY>’
print ‘<H1>This is a header</H1>’
print ‘<p>’ #this is a comment
print ‘See this is just like most other HTML’
print ‘<br>’
print ‘</BODY>’
