Not a good idea to run web2py (or any other web app) as root. On Friday, 19 April 2013 09:56:48 UTC-5, LightDot wrote: > > To clarify: this is probably a question of a security policy, as the > web2py process, run as root, is trying to open a browser GUI and this fails. > > You could run web2py as a regular user, I would actually recommend this > approach. You'll probably need to chown the contents of > /home/augusto/Downloads/web2py and all it's subdirectories to your regular > user, as web2py already created some additional subdirectories and files in > there as root. After that, just start web2py as you normally would, but > under a regular user account. > > Regards, > Ales > > On Friday, April 19, 2013 4:43:08 PM UTC+2, LightDot wrote: >> >> You are logged in the graphical environment as a regular user, but you're >> starting web2py in a terminal, as root? >> >> After the above error, if you open your web browser manually and visit: >> http://127.0.0.1:8000/ do you see the welcome page? >> >> Regards, >> Ales >> >> On Friday, April 19, 2013 3:52:56 PM UTC+2, Augusto Santos wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I am new in web2py and I was following the tutorial to start learning >>> and developing with web2py. But when I came across the part about starting >>> the server I had a problem that I didn't succeed to solve. That's why I am >>> here to kindly ask you some help. >>> Actually, I got the GUI to start the server, but the webpage does not >>> started correctly besides neither starting automatically and I've got this >>> output: >>> >>> root@debian:/home/augusto/Downloads/web2py# python web2py.py >>> web2py Web Framework >>> Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2013 >>> Version 2.4.6-stable+timestamp.2013.04.06.17.37.38 >>> Database drivers available: SQLite(sqlite2), SQLite(sqlite3), >>> MySQL(pymysql), PostgreSQL(pg8000), IMAP(imaplib) >>> please visit: >>> http://127.0.0.1:8000/ >>> starting browser... >>> Erro do GConf: Falha ao contatar o servidor de configuração; a causa >>> mais comum é um bus daemon da sessão do D-Bus faltante ou mal configurado. >>> Para mais informações consulte: http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/. >>> (Detalhes - 1: Falha ao obter uma conexão à sessão: Did not receive a >>> reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a >>> reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout >>> expired, or the network connection was broken.) >>> Erro do GConf: Falha ao contatar o servidor de configuração; a causa >>> mais comum é um bus daemon da sessão do D-Bus faltante ou mal configurado. >>> Para mais informações consulte: http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/. >>> (Detalhes - 1: Falha ao obter uma conexão à sessão: Did not receive a >>> reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a >>> reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout >>> expired, or the network connection was broken.) >>> Erro ao mostrar url: Operação sem suporte >>> >>> Can you please help me solve this problem? >>> >>>
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