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How do I run python cgi script on apache2 server on Ubuntu 16.04?

I am a newbie so I saw some tutorials. I have a python script as first.py

#!/usr/bin/python3 print "Content-type: text/html\n" print "Hello, world!"

I have multiple versions of python on my computer. I couldn't figure out my cgi enabled directory so I pasted this code at three places

  1. /usr/lib/cgi-bin/first.py

  2. /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/first.py

  3. /var/www/html/first.py

Now when I run this code in terminal it works fine but when I type

curl http://localhost/first.py

it spit out just simple text and does not execute.

I have given all the permissions to first.py

I have enabled and started the server by commands

a2enmod cgi systemctl restart apache2

Please tell how do I execute and what is going on here? Thanks in advance.

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