To make a long story short : it works now! I ran the ubuntu.sh script, and it installed a lot of stuff (still had to instal python-tk manually)
tried to run admin, still got errors. Looked at the error log in admin/errors, and compared the file that it said had a syntax error -- it was very different from the same file on my working debian system!!! So somehow, my ubuntu install of web2py was seriously screwed up! Re-installing it from a new download of web2py_src.zip has everything working now!!! Thanks to you both for the help and support!!! Luis. (PS, I come from a Matlab background, and am just now switching to python. The learning curve is not too steep, and I can already see the power of python!!! I'm building a website, and GAE + web2py seemed like the best choice. web2py is awesome!!!) On May 25, 11:57 pm, Luis Goncalves <lgoncal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good idea to copy the files to the debian system and try to see them > there! > > Also good idea to look at the applications/admin/errors directly! I > will try! > > Yes, I've got source code 1.95.1 (stable) for web2py > > GAE (when you run uploaded from google) uses python 2.5.2. > > Likewise, web2py recommends on 2.5.2, for backwards compatibility. > > My debian system has 2.5.2. > > Perhaps my problem is that I didn't run the setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh !!! > > I am trying that now! > > Thanks!!! > > L. > > On May 25, 10:17 pm, ron_m <ron.mco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Looks like you get a ticket trying to display the application error ticket. > > I had that once but I was debugging something in trunk that was broken at > > the time. > > > You mentioned you have a fully and properly working debain version. I > > believe it is legit to move the files under errors in your application to > > the system that works and look at them there using the admin interface. That > > might help get a handle on it. > > > Also when the admin system gets an error you will find the ticket file under > > applications/admin/errors. > > > You are using stable from web2py currently 1.95.1? > > > I would be tempted to download the zip file, unpack it and slide it into > > place where the existing one is now after you rename the top directory of > > the old one. Then you can run a diff to see if something got changed > > somehow. > > > Is there a requirement to run GAE on python 2.5? What version of Python is > > on your debian system where everything is working? I run standalone or under > > apache with wsgi on Python 2.6.5 without issues. Have a look at > > web2py/scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh and you can see the packages that get > > loaded in there. I wouldn't load in matplotlib or reportlab unless you need > > them. > > > Ron
