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I'm trying to write a Python script that imports arcgisscripting (stuck on 9.3.1 here) which is then run as CGI by a web app. It runs fine from the Windows command line but as soon as I drop it into the app it throws an Error 500: Internal Server Error. I checked the Apache logs and sure enough there's a ImportError: No module named arcgisscripting. All of my other modules are working fine (sys, os, etc.) Does anybody know what could be the issue here?

Update: I think it might have something to do with this: Why can't python find some modules when I'm running CGI scripts from the web?

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  • Did you try the solution offered in your update? Make sure your arcgisscripting module is globally available to all users on your machine.
    – Radar
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 18:07
  • Just did - problem solved!
    – bertday
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 18:32

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The link in the question had the answer... The location of arcgisscripting is defined in the Windows environment variable PYTHONPATH. By printing sys.path from a CGI script I could tell this was missing from the variables Apache was using. Easy fix: add this to httpd.conf:

SetEnv PYTHONPATH "c:/path/to/pythonpath"

And no more ImportError!

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