I found the answer....
Ruben Orduz<http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=web2py@googlegroups.com&q=from:%22Ruben+Orduz%22> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:49:41 -0700<http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=web2py@googlegroups.com&q=date:20120319> You have to re-start the web2py server NOT from the tk GUI (start/stop) server buttons but you have to close that GUI app and re-start web2py.exe. It worked for me after that. So a full restart will re-parse the top level routes.py routes. This may be the same on UNIX but I never used the tk GUI for web2py so I did not see this until I used Windows. On Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:15:25 PM UTC-7, Dave wrote: > > I generally am not the person to be monkeying around with things on > Windows. That said, one of my customers is about to take over management > and ownership of a web2py application I have written for them. I seem to > be having an issue testing the deployment for them. > > I created an options.py file and the service installs and starts properly. > Unfortunately, for some reason it does not appear the routes.py file is > being parsed on startup though. Even though the default app is set, a > request to / still attempts to go to /welcome/... If I go in to the admin > interface and choose reload routes, everything works... until the service > is restarted that is. > > If I run web2py from the command line .. ie python web2py.py -p 80 -a > 'password', the routes.py file gets parsed on startup. > > Any ideas? > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.