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I've installed lighttpd and gotten it to serve /var/www/index.html just fine, but I haven't gotten it to run a Python script yet.

I enabled CGI and set it's match case and directory as instructed in this SO answer. In short, I added mod_cgi to server.modules() and gave it a regex rule 

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

For my test file /var/www/cgi-bin/test.py:

print "Content-Type: text/html"     
print ""                              
print "<body>"
print "TEST"
print "</body>"
print "</html>"

When I enter the url raspberrypi.local or my IP, I get the file /var/www/index.html as expected. When I request the url raspberrypi.local/cgi-bin/test.py or raspberrypi.local/test.py I get a 404 error.

How can I solve this problem?

EDIT: I've also found this tutorial which is very good, and says pretty much the same thing. I'm still getting the 404 error.

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Seph Reed
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If it helps 2 years later, if you enabled it via lighty-mod-enable, or perhaps this is a version specific thing ( Using lighttpd 1.4.55 ), the link that is created in /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/ from the sample file at /etc/lighttpd/conf-available that is 10-cgi.conf, contains

alias.url += ( "/cgi-bin/" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/" )

Which aliases the /cgi-bin folder to the one in /usr/lib, which it took me a good minute to figure out after reading this post.

Regardless, you can remove this line if you do want to use the cgi-bin in /var/www/html/.../cgi-bin, or put your files at /usr/lib/cgi-bin

Hope that helps!

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Please follow this steps:

First enable cgi by

sudo lighttpd-enable-mod cgi

This creates a new configuration file for Lighttpd:

/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-cgi.conf

Edit the configuration file nano /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-cgi.conf, to look similar to this

server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )

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

Make sure python 2 is installed by executing:

/usr/bin/python --version

Now, restart

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

Good luck!

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  • This just almost got it working: the alias should refer to "/var/www/cgi-bin/", with a slash at the end. – xtofl Nov 04 '18 at 12:54