C:\web\medusa\
on win95, but it's entirely up
to you.
Copy the bobo_handler.py file into the Medusa directory.
Make a backup of the start_medusa.py script.
Edit the start_medusa.py script down at the
"HTTP Server" section (search for that string).
Just after the line hs.install_handler(dh)
, insert the
following lines (depending on operating system):
On UNIX:
sys.path.append("/home/richard/src/bobo/hello") import bobo_handler import hello bfh = bobo_handler.bobo_handler(hello, uri_base="/cgi-bin/hello", debug=1) hs.install_handler(bfh)
On Win95:
sys.path.append("C:\\web\\bobo\\hello") import bobo_handler import hello bfh = bobo_handler.bobo_handler(hello, uri_base="/cgi-bin/hello", debug=1) hs.install_handler(bfh)
I've defined the debug=1
flag so that I can play around
with
editing the hello.py
script without having to restart
the
Medusa server. If you don't include the flag, then you'll have to kill
and
restart the server each time you change the source for your
application.
This has a major benefit in that you can edit and test the source and
not
affect the running application.
Note that I've specified the URI base in these examples. It's perfectly OK to leave them out -- Medusa's Bobo handler will figure out what the base name should be (in this case, "/hello"). Unfortunately, some of the most popular web browsers do special cache tricks if the URI doesn't start with "/cgi-bin/". It's better to include a "cgi-bin" even if we're lying :)