You should also add the Python folders to your PATH environment variable -- something like:
C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts Anthony On Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:40:38 AM UTC-4, Marco Ippolito wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > thank you for your kind help > > pywin32 installed, > > as you can see from the pdf file I attached I created a PYTHONPATH > environment variable with web2py folder path: > , > > and in cmd prompt I did > "cd web2py" > "python web2py.py" but doesn't work > > What do I miss? > > Marco > > > Il giorno domenica 16 giugno 2013 16:37:48 UTC+2, Anthony ha scritto: >> >> You don't start web2py from a Python shell -- instead, open a command >> prompt and do: >> >> > cd path\to\web2py >> > python web2py.py >> >> Make sure you have pywin32 >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/>installed. Also, you may need to >> create a PYTHONPATH environment variable >> and add your web2py folder path to it. >> >> Anthony >> >> On Sunday, June 16, 2013 9:49:43 AM UTC-4, Marco Ippolito wrote: >>> >>> Hi everybody, >>> before I installed the binary version of web2py but didn't manage to >>> make it starting as windows service. >>> >>> So I decided to install the source version of web2py. >>> I extracted web2py_src file in C:\ >>> Following the instructions on web2y site "To run from source, type: >>> >>> > >>> >>> python2.5 web2py.py " >>> >>> I typed in python2.7 shell "web2py.py" >>> but nothing happened. >>> >>> in web2py directory the file "web2py.py" contains the following: >>> "#!/usr/bin/env python >>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >>> >>> import os >>> import sys >>> >>> if '__file__' in globals(): >>> path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) >>> elif hasattr(sys, 'frozen'): >>> path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.executable)) # for py2exe >>> else: # should never happen >>> path = os.getcwd() >>> os.chdir(path) >>> >>> sys.path = [path] + [p for p in sys.path if not p == path] >>> >>> # import gluon.import_all ##### This should be uncommented for py2exe.py >>> import gluon.widget >>> >>> # Start Web2py and Web2py cron service! >>> if __name__ == '__main__': >>> try: >>> from multiprocessing import freeze_support >>> freeze_support() >>> except: >>> sys.stderr.write('Sorry, -K only supported for python 2.6-2.7\n') >>> if os.environ.has_key("COVERAGE_PROCESS_START"): >>> try: >>> import coverage >>> coverage.process_startup() >>> except: >>> pass >>> gluon.widget.start(cron=True) " >>> >>> What do I have to do? >>> >>> Thank you in advance for your kind help >>> Marco >>> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

