The grey box is indeed a placeholder for when the capturing process fails. This could be because of an issue with Xvfb or CutyCapt.

Maybe try running these apps directly from the command line to see if they are working?
xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-args='-screen 0, 1024x768x24' /path/to/CutyCapt --url=http://website.com/ --out=~/snapshot.png

I managed to get it to run. I think in python 2.6 the packages have to reside in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/.
So it seems to work fine but instead of displaying a screenshot I only see e light grey box (perhaps a placeholder). Security settings should be Ok. I turned debug on in settings.py, but I’m not sure were to find the debug output. In the apache error.log I just see this warning:
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5
I’m not sure if this is the problem?!

Thanks,

Peter

thanks for the great article.
I’m new to using python and followed the steps you described above. Now I think the problem is that the Ubuntu 9.04 uses python 2.6 as default. If I try “./manage.py syncdb” I get the error message “Error: No module named sorl” (even. If I change the default version of my system to 2.5 it works, but still the webserver part doesn’t work cause apache insist on using version 2.6. Do you know how I can use your program on Ubuntu 9.04.

Thanks,

Peter