Using Python Scripts with IIS

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276494

Web application development normally needs a web server to work along with throughout the implementation stage. We might need to work out some code and then put it onto the server for some simple testing. A more convenient way would be using a local web server for this sort of programming and testing tasks. It has been saying that ASP or .Net programmer stick with IIS and the others goes for other web server like Apache. What if you are using developing CGI application in Python with a Windows machine? Do we really need to install an Apache server and do some configuration in other to make things done? Not exactly, you may still stick with your IIS (for convenient). This page teaches you how to make your IIS work with Python scripts.

It is important to have a local testing server in development nowadays. Since development process is now talking about quality, developers need to do sufficient testing on their code in order to ensure the quality of their output. Another thing about development
process is speed. It is always good to have a higher development speed, so that the time-to-market of the software product can be shorten, and therefore a faster income for the team. Quality and speed may seem to contradict each other, but doing the test with local web server in development stage would provide a quicker and longer testing process. This can favor the development process in terms of both quality and speed.

So next time, when you want to do some Python CGI but you only have an IIS, no panic, try to make your IIS Python-enabled, and then enjoy the development.