Thanks, I only wanted to see if it just me having this problem. It is not so important to run it with dev_appserver.py.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com>wrote: > On Feb 12, 2011, at 1:45 PM, feric...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm running the latest version of gae 1.4.2 and latest version of web2py. > It didn't work for me on mac so I am trying it on linux now. It works if I > deploy it. > > Does it work out of the box for you? > > > I've been fighting similar problems on OS X. The short answer seems to be: > point the SDK at Python 2.5. The symptoms are sort of erratic, but a long > stack trace that ends in a failure to import some shared C library is what > I've been seeing: _io or _ctypes so far. > > A small point: in the GAE SDK GUI (GoogleAppEngineLauncher) you can set the > Python version as a Preference (point it to the python binary). But in the > Preference field, you have to hit Enter, or it doesn't stick. > > I'm running Launcher version 1.4.2.1041 > > I happen to have Python 2.5.4 lying around, and that seems to work, so far. > 2.5.2 is here if you want it: > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/ > > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:41 PM, G. Clifford Williams < > g...@notadiscussion.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 01:33:00PM -0800, rif spake: >> > Shoud these steps work? >> > >> > - download google app engine >> > - download web2py >> > - run ./dev_appserver.py ../web2py/ >> > - go to http://localhost:8080 >> > >> > Should it display the welcome app? >> > I am on a fedora system with python 2.7 and it doesn't (it gives me an >> long >> > stacktrace). Is it because of python version? >> >> Depends on the version of GAE you're running. Support for python 2.7 was >> added very recently and may still be beta (not sure on this). >> >> I've never used GAE SDK on Linux so I'm not sure how it works there. On OS >> X you start the GAE Launcher and add your application to the launcher via a >> gui then start it by clicking on a run button. >> > > > >
