Raspberry Pi 3 – Day 8

Install Apache2 server

sudo apt-get install apache2

CGI scripts are usually stored in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, and they must have executable permission. Scripts execute when they are requested by a browser. Anything printed to stdout will be displayed in a browser, so many scripts are used to generate HTML.

sudo leafpad /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf &

sudo a2dismod mpm_event

sudo a2enmod mpm_prefork cgi

    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options +ExecCGI
        DirectoryIndex index.py
    </Directory>
    AddHandler cgi-script .py

sudo chown root.gpio /dev/mem && sudo chmod g+rw /dev/mem
sudo adduser www-data gpio

sudo service apache2 restart

sudo mv ~/Downloads/*.cgi /var/www/html
cd /var/www/html && rename 's/cgi/py/g' *.py

sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/*.cgi

Hello CGI

http://192.168.0.232/cgi-bin/hello.cgi

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "<h1>Hello World</h1>"

Passing Parameters in Raspberry Using CGI

http://192.168.0.232/test8.py?name=amar&company=woir&city=hyderabad

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
# print header
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
query_string=os.environ["QUERY_STRING"]
print "<h2>Query string</h2>"
print "query_string: "+query_string+"<br>"
print "<h2>Argument list</h2>"
arg_list=query_string.split('&')
#print arg_list
i=1
for arg in arg_list:
    key, value=arg.split('=')
    print "key "+str(i)+": "+key+"<br>"
    print"value "+str(i)+": "+value+"<br>"
    i +=1

Passing Parameters in Raspberry Using CGI modules

http://192.168.0.232/test81.py?os=amar&cpu=woir&server=hyderabad

#!/usr/bin/env python
import cgi
# print header
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "<h2>Arguments</h2>"
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
arg1 = form.getvalue('os')
print "OS: " +arg1+"<br>"
arg2 = form.getvalue('cpu')
print "CPU: "+arg2+"<br>"
arg3 = form.getvalue('server')
print "Server: "+arg3+"<br>"

Controlling the pin Remotely

http://192.168.0.232/test82.py?count=9

import cgi
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
import sys
# print header
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "<h2>Arguments</h2>"
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
count = form.getvalue('count')
print "Your request to blink the LED at pin 12 is received - Count: "+count+"<br>"
pin=12
if not str(count).isdigit():
    print "Your request does not make sense - choose the correct value and try again"
    sys.exit()
if int(count) < 1:
    print "Your request does not make sense - choose the correct value and try again"
    sys.exit()
if int(count) > 10:
    print "We can not effort to run so many times - choose value in between 1 to 10"
    sys.exit()
def blink(pin, state):
    GPIO.output(pin,state)
    return
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(pin,GPIO.OUT)
for i in range(0, int(count)):
    blink(pin,GPIO.HIGH)
    time.sleep(0.2)
    blink(pin,GPIO.LOW)
    time.sleep(0.2)
GPIO.cleanup()

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