please try from the windows shell..

cd /where/web2py/is/
web2py.exe -S welcome
>>> import winservice

do you get a traceback? what does it say?

Massimo

On Jan 4, 8:22 am, Fran <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 11:32 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I do no have access to a windows machine until Monday.
>
> I looked at the service installed by the 1.54 binary & see that it
> tries to run:
> "C:\web2py\web2py.exe" options
>
> This only runs from the Web2Py folder, otherwise:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "web2py.py", line 4, in <module>
>   File "gluon\widget.pyc", line 14, in <module>
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'VERSION'
> (This also happens with '-a password' instead of 'options', so isn't
> only when trying to launch the UI)
>
> I tried to wrap the .exe into a CMD file so that the .exe is run from
> the proper folder.
> That works from CMD, but not from services still (even with '-a
> password').
>
> 'Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control
> request in a timely fashion'
>
> Nothing logged in the Event Logs other than this &:
> "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the web2py Service service
> to connect."
>
> I'm happy to do more testing/investigation if given pointers.
>
> F
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