Execute file on server side using Apache?

[KieuVanQuan]

How do I execute an executable file (from an other PC) on the server side using a python script? There's a cgi-bin folder and that's where I'd like to put a .py file which starts an exe file inside cgi-bin.

[espurritado]

you could consider connecting to the remote pc via ssh using paramiko

[Dat Guy]

Note that this sounds horribly insecure.

[Mira Yurizaki]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/calling-an-external-command-in-python

 

This is assuming you're using a shell type environment.