should this work?
 

Hi,

Is there anything obviously wrong with the process described here?

I have carefully recreated all the steps but have not had any success. Is it me?

Thanks,

Brian H.
Uxbridge Ont.

No idea, since you tell us nothing about your setup, what you've done to try to troubleshoot things, any relevant errors/messages you've seen, what kind of system, what's in that python script, etc. Running a python program from HTML is no different than running any other program from HTML; that procedure doesn't look at all complicated.

With no information, we cannot guess as to what could be your problem. Short answer to your question: no, nothing obviously wrong (other than the fact you're trying to DO that at all, which is incredibly insecure).

That tutorial left out a few details.

What distribution and version are you running?

Any recent version is using python version 3 which the interpreter is called python3. Whether the web server environment includes /usr/bin or has access to the location where the python script exists depends on the distribution.

Make sure your python script runs as expected.

That is not the right approach. I mean you do not need to ask us to review that page, but what you have made. So please give us more details about those steps.
Exactly what did you try, what's happened ...
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...html#beprecise

Let's clarify:

The Python [u]subprocess[/b] system does, indeed, allow you to "fork" child processes within a single computer environment, and conveniently do things like "collect their results."

However, the quoted article is "mightily misleading(!)" when it goes on to say this:

Because it clearly shows that this person who describes himself thusly: (emphasis mine)

... is very-clearly still a "student." He does not (yet) know the difference.

It is one thing to "conveniently execute subcommands on your own computer." (Which subprocess is specifically designed to do.) But, entirely a different thing to "execute a remote procedure call" (by whatever means ...) to execute them on another.

Of course, since you have not yet entirely described your scenario in your original post, all of what I am saying is "just a guess."

Yes, it's complete nonsense. You can't run local subprocesses from an HTML page.

Yep, complete nonsense. Probably AI-generated.