It seems that the "mywiki" tutorial in Chapter 3 of the book is no
longer accurate. I had a problem with it. If this can be
corroborated by someone else, perhaps this should be updated in the
book.
Environment......
* web2py 1.98.2 downloaded as "source", not as .app
* Mac OS X 10.6.8
* Python 2.7.2 -- EPD 7.1-1 (32-bit)
I followed all the examples in the book (Chapter 3). When I completed
the "mywiki" app, I had a problem with this link:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/mywiki/default/news.rss
Instead of showing me the RSS feed, I got an error message that
default/news is an "invalid view". There was no trouble ticket
created, just an error message.
Trolling around the web, I found this post related to an invalid view:
> [pbreit View profile More options Jun 30, 1:51 am]
> Or this if you can get by with them only being available on "localhost":
>
> # by default give a view/generic.extension to all actions from localhost
> # none otherwise. a pattern can be 'controller/function.extension'
> response.generic_patterns = ['*'] if request.is_local else []
I added this code to my db.py, and that seemed to resolve the
problem. After that, when I visited
http://127.0.0.1:8000/mywiki/default/news.rss
it actually brought up the RSS feed page in my Safari browser.
Am I the only one affected by this, or have others encountered this?
Thanks in advance.
