Cannot get HTML file to call JavaScript function hello() on Ubuntu Apache 2. I have seen similar problems where the solution was to uncomment the #JSDIR line on the httpd.conf file but there is now only apache.conf and no similar line. I want to call the python script accesstest.py to write the current date and time to a text file from the main.js function after clicking the button on the HTML file. All of the files work correctly when run separately. How do I fix this?
index.html HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title><demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1></h1>
<script src="main.js"></script>
<button onclick="hello();">js function</button>
</body>
</html>
main.js JavaScript code:
let myHeading = document.querySelector('h1');
myHeading.textContent = 'Hello world!';
function hello(){
var spawn = require("child_process").spawn;
var process = spawn('python,["accesstest.py"]);
alert('hello');
}
accesstest.py Python code:
import datetime
def execute():
file = open('/path/to/file/pytest.txt', 'a+')
file.write('test time: %s \n' % (datetime.datetime.now()))
file.close()
execute()
Here is the display:
page displays "Hello World!" with "js function button" that does nothing
Here are a couple solutions I found that didn't work for me:
Unable to call JavaScript function in html on button click
How to link external javascript file onclick of button
Thanks.
spawnmight work within nodejs, but not embedded in HTML+Javascript