Thanks Anthony and Massimo. I contacted the hosting company and they suggested to install the additional python instance.
Can you please advise, how would I go about auto-starting web2py with a proper version of python then? Thanks, Adnan ### Reference email from hosting company: ... there would essentially be two installs of python. One at 2.4.3 for Cpanel and the other python 2.7.2. What would change is the reference for the version. If coding a typical python program #/usr/bin/python which would link to #/usr/local/bin/python243 or similar If coding using 2.7.2 your top of code would look like #usr/bin/pyton27 which would be linked to the install of python272. They both would reside on the server.