cPanel: Running Python Scrips - 1-grid Knowledge Base

This guide provides you with steps to setup and run Python scripts in cPanel.

Step 1- Login to cPanel

Please see our article on logging into cPanelhere.

Step 2 – Click on File Manager under your Files section.

INFO:Python scripts can be run inside ‘public_html‘ or in ‘cgi-bin‘ folder.The cgi-bin folder contains executable CGI scripts. If you are placing the file outside of the cgi-bin folder, ‘.htaccess‘ file should be created additionally to make the script work. For this example we will create the file inside ‘cgi-bin’ folder.

Step 3 – Create a test Python file in /public_html/cgi-bin

Step 4 – Edit the file to add test script

#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "Python is working fine on your server."

Step 5 – Edit file permissions

Right click on the test file and select change Permissions
The permissions must be updated to 755 for the test script to work.
Click change permissions

Step 5 – Test the file via your browser

INFO: If you would like to run the Python file not in the cgi-bin folder (in public_html or any other directory), it is necessary to add the following code to the .htaccess file in the same directory where the Python script is uploaded:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py

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