As Jonathan says, it is main that creates the missing folders, the first time the app is accessed. dal just assumes it is there.
On Feb 4, 4:56 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > > > Nope not working for me. A raw checkout of a branch, there is no NEWINSTALL > > file, nor a welcome.w2p file since we don't need it. > > > The app only contains controllers, cron, languages, models, modules, > > static, tests, views, __init__.py. > > > From this state, when starting web2py just by python web2py.py. Navigate to > > the app in firefox or other web browser, and it crashes because it cannot > > connect to the sqlite database 5 times, this is because the databases > > folder does not exist from a raw checkout of our app, and web2py does not > > seem to be creating any of the folders. > > > If I navigate into my app directory, and run ``mkdir databases`` then > > navigate to the app, everything is fine, and web2py ends up making the > > uploads, private, cache, sessions, and errors folders. > > Odd. The admin.create_missing_app_folders() call in main.wsgibase should be > creating the folder. > > Could you throw a couple of strategic debug prints into that function and see > what's going on?
