New to Python and the web. I have a python 2.7 program that uses several html templates and updates info in MYSQL. Moving it to a real web host I have installed Python 2.7 and all the needed modules (like flask) using SSH and can run the command python init.py (like I do locally) and it says that it is running on the localhost (on the host server site) so I'm confident the program is executable. I changed permissions using chmod 0755 init.py. The site looks for index.php (by default I guess) so I created an index.php with this:
<p><?php echo exec('cd ~'); ?></p>
<p><?php echo exec('virtualenv teamingit'); ?></p>
<p><?php echo exec('source teamingit/bin/activate'); ?></p>
<p><?php echo exec('cd public_html'); ?></p>
<p><?php echo exec('python __init__.py'); ?></p>
When you go to the site it shows the message for the virtualenv (i.e. Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.) so at least part of the PHP code is executing but then it just leaves only that message on the screen rather than rendering the first template. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious to python/web veterans but I'm stuck, any guidance is appreciated.
