Tim, you were very close. libssl-dev
--------- Massimo, I went the route of installing distutils so I could easy_install, but once again was met with an error: sudo easy_install ssl Processing ssl error: Couldn't find a setup script in ssl Thank you for the suggestions. I see where plenty of other people had the same problem getting SSL support in python. Should I opt to compile python with SSL support to begin with, as this page suggests? http://paltman.com/2007/nov/15/getting-ssl-support-in-python-251/ Perhaps a distro other than Debian? Perhaps I should give up trying to use the included CherryPy server, and use Cherokee or another web server instead? This is very frustrating, and for the most part has nothing to do with web2py. Sorry to clutter the board.
