@Richard: fixed. Can you test if this is the behaviour that you want ? @Paolo: thanks for the pointer, fixed.
@Massimo: I "released" the script here to test it before sending the patch to you just because of these small hiccups here and there. This could definitely become the default installation script on debian derivatives of web2py (with one of the speediest stacks out there and quite frankly the easiest to maintain :-P). Next steps are fabric/cuisine scripts for all kinds of Linuxes. --