How to get python running?

[Kugel]

here is my script:

#!/usr/bin/python
print "Python - OK"

And when I try to load the page:
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@bubu.exofire.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


yes, the script is in public_html/cgi-bin/ directory
and yes I have chmoded it to 755

Is there perhaps a log where I can see what the internal error is?

 

[tnl2k7]

Try the cPanel Error Log, it has information about most issues.

-Luke.

 

[Kugel]

Actually I found out from the logs that it says file not found.

I tried a txt file inside cgi-bin:

http://bubu.exofire.net/cgi-bin/hello.txt

but same 500 internal error, what is wrong?

 

[Corey]

I don't see a shebang in your file.

-Corey

 

[Kugel]

http://bubu.exofire.net/cgi-bin/hello.py

definitely contains shebang

here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/python

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"

print "test"

EDIT:

Fount the problem, the file was in UTF-8 with BOM.

For anyone who will try to setup python here are the steps:
1) have your files in cgi-bin directory
2) chmod them to 755
3) make sure you have correct shebang line: #!usr/bin/python
4) print text/html line and one extra empty line (see above)
5) I used windows notepad, which saved BOM in my source code, BOM is a 2-3 bytes at the beginning of the file and thus shebang will be corrupted. Save without UTF-8 without BOM or save in ANSI.