Hello, I recently decided to use web2py to develop a website and I have Apache server with mod_wsgi on RedHat CENTOS. What I want is to be able to develop a website using web2py and then allow others to edit this website through web2py. For that it means that I should be able to have access to the admin interface through HTTP. However, I tried to see if I can access the Welcome default application and I can, however I cannot access the administration interface from here.
I tried looking at the options to access this admin interface however, I need HTTPS or SSH or just comment some lines in /applications/admin/ models/access.py I have spend quite a lot of time in trying to do this and it is getting quite frustrating, but nothing that I tried works. I need to get my website done and I will try other frameworks I can't get to this admin interface soon. So I tried: 1) I tried looking in the HTTPS, but this server already had installed Apache and mod_wsgi and mod_ssl on it. I tried tweaking it by editing / etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and after the "" ## ## SSL Virtual Host Context ## <VirtualHost _default_:443> "" I added this: """ 346 WSGIScriptAlias / /PATHTOWEB2PY/web2py/wsgihandler.py ///// - > 347 348 <Directory /opt/web-apps/web2py> 349 AllowOverride None 350 Order Allow,Deny 351 Deny from all 352 <Files wsgihandler.py> 353 Allow from all 354 </Files> 355 </Directory> 356 357 AliasMatch ^/([^/]+)/static/(.*) /opt/web-apps/web2py/ applications/\$1/static/\$2 358 359 <Directory /opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/*/static> 360 Options -Indexes 361 ExpiresActive On 362 ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour" 363 Order Allow,Deny 364 Allow from all 365 </Directory> """ This now when I try accessing the welcome app and the admin interface in it, it still does not work giving me the "admin disabled because unable to access password file" I am not sure whether I should try setting up a virtual host for *443? 2) Secondly, since I am not worried about the security here for web2py and I wanted to disable the check for secure connection according to this post: http://www.web2pyslices.com/slices/take_slice/76 I edited web2py/applications/admin/models/access.py web2py/applications/admin/controllers/appadmin.py and even the applications/welcome/controllers/appadmin.py that should allow admin access through the default Welcome Application. And this still did not work and I do not have access to the admin interface. Do I have to do anything in addition to editing those files and commenting these lines in those files (see below)? #if request.env.web2py_runtime_gae: # session_db = DAL('gae') # session.connect(request, response, db=session_db) # hosts = (http_host, ) #if request.env.http_x_forwarded_for or request.is_https: # session.secure() #elif not request.is_local and not DEMO_MODE: # raise HTTP(200, T('Admin is disabled because insecure channel')) Any hints on how to access this admin interface on either of the two methods that I tried??? Any help would be really appreciated! Thank you so much.
