OperationalErrors originate from database, not web2py. Are you using sqlite? It could be a file permission issue.
On Jul 15, 12:23 pm, Gary Herron <gher...@digipen.edu> wrote: > Has anyone seen this error, or know what it means? Any advice, > workaround or solution would be greatly appreciated. > > On a machine (somewhere in the cloud), I'm trying to get a small web2py > site working and I'm running into a persistent reproducible bug that's > killing me. > > The error I get is: > OperationalError: unable to open database file > > This eventually occurs on any application I try to create, but I've been > able to reproduce it several times with the following set of actions: > > Download a fresh copy of web2py for windows, extract, and run > Create a new application named test > In test's admin interface create two auth_user's and one auth_group > Attempt to create a auth_membership -- instead of the form I get the > above error. > > The system I'm running on is a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 > On both a Linux/Ubuntu and a Windows XP machine everything works well. > > Thanks for any help > > -- > Gary Herron, PhD. > Department of Computer Science > DigiPen Institute of Technology > (425) 895-4418
