I've added Google AdSense to my web site, but the AdSense page says it would like a sitemap. Google offers a free site-map generation Python script, but doesn't give much information as to how it should be used.

I've run Perl and PHP scripts before, but not Python. Elsewhere on Lunarforums it was stated that these should be run in the cgi-bin directory, and have a ".cgi" extension. However, when I run the script, I get a "500 Internal Server Error". I checked the error log, and changed the permissions for this file to "755". I no longer get any feedback in the Error Log that explains WHY I'm getting a 500 error.

I suspect it has to do with the header in the Python file. I used a cron job to determine where Python is on my server, and got a number of replies:

python: /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python2.3
/usr/lib/python2.3
/usr/local/bin/python2.4
/usr/local/bin/python
/usr/local/lib/python2.4
/usr/include/python2.3
/usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz


After reading more about this (finally found the documentation at Google's site), I tried to run the script as a cron job (to make use of the Unix command line). I set this command:

python /public_html/cgi-bin/sitemap_gen.py --config=/public_html/cgi-bin/config.xml --testing

And the e-mail reply from the cron job said

python: can't open file '/public_html/cgi-bin/sitemap_gen.py'

I have his error also if I change the extension to .cgi.

Any suggestions on how to make this run?