Advanced Search

Debugging/logging CGI script in Python

/ Published in: Python
Save to your folder(s)

Expand | Embed | Plain Text

Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. import sys, traceback
  2. print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
  3. try:               # use explicit exception handling
  4.     import my_cgi  # main CGI functionality in 'my_cgi.py'
  5.     my_cgi.main()
  6. except:
  7.     import time
  8.     errtime = '--- '+ time.ctime(time.time()) +' ---\n'
  9.     errlog = open('cgi_errlog', 'a')
  10.     errlog.write(errtime)
  11.     traceback.print_exc(None, errlog)
  12.     print "<html>\n<head>"
  13.     print "<title>CGI Error Encountered!</title>\n</head>"
  14.     print "<body><p>A problem was encountered running MyCGI</p>"
  15.     print "<p>Please check the server error log for details</p>"
  16.     print "</body></html>"

Report this snippet


Comments

RSS Icon Subscribe to comments

You need to login to post a comment.