[Tilecache] Help with tilecache.cgi unusual error

Scott Baker scott at pawprint.net
Mon May 5 15:46:45 EDT 2008


Solved the problem (thanks to everyone that offered help)

It was file permissions - I had set everything to 755 and my apache 
server would only accept at the lower 711 - go figure.

Scott Baker wrote:
> Sorry about the HTML (bad defaults <slap />)
>
> No other lines that relate in the log - just the premature end...
>
> I did try the following - I created this script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import cgitb; cgitb.enable();
> print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"
> print "Hello, World!\n"
>
> Which works fine from the shell but also dies with the same error and 
> the same 500 server error from a browser. So it's certainly something to 
> do with Python as a CGI in general and not tilecache and that kinda 
> places my problem off topic for this list.
>
> If anyone wants to shoot over any suggestions I'm certainly game - but 
> I'll try some general python searching to try and resolve it.
> Perl, PHP, and shell script CGIs are all working fine as does every 
> python script I've tried from the shell.
>
> me[stumped] = true
>   
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