Setting Python Environment in GCP

1. Go to Google Cloud Console

2. Create an instance

3. Go to Cloud Shell (SSH)

4. Run sudo -i command for accessing the root directory

5. Run apt update command.

6. To install Apache 2, run apt-get install apache2

7.To open the configuration file run nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

8. To execute .py files run Options +ExecCGI

                                 AddHandler cgi-script .py

9. Run service apache2 restart

10. To enable cgid module for python script, run a2enmod cgi command

11. Run service apache2 restart

12. Run apt install python python-dev python3 python3-dev  

13. To install pip, run  wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py  

14. To know pip version run pip --version

15. To install virtualenv, run pip install --upgrade virtualenv

16. To create virtualenv in your project run cd /var/www/html/

17. Run virtualenv --python python3 env

18. To activate virtualenv run source env/bin/activate

19. Run nano hello.py

               chmod 777 hello.py

20. To install dos2unix, run apt-get install dos2unix

21. To run any python script uploaded from Windows in Linux run dos2unix “filename”.py