Can you try edit the file /etc/init.d/web2py and replace DAEMON_USER=web2py
with DAEMON_USER=www-data On Saturday, 26 April 2014 22:38:00 UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > You can try > > On Saturday, 26 April 2014 13:29:08 UTC-5, Cynthia Butler wrote: >> >> I followed the instructions in the book Chapter 13 "Start as Linux >> daemon". But when I type this on command line: >> >> sudo /etc/init.d/web2py start >> >> I get this error: >> >> * Starting Web Framework web2py >> chown: invalid user: 'web2py' >> start-stop-daemon: user 'web2py' not found >> >> I think it's caused by the group:user is actually "www-data' as setup by the >> ngenix-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh script, instead of "web2py". >> >> I can get the web2py server to run by typing this at the command line: >> cd /home/www-data/web2py >> sudo -u www-data python web2py >> >> But it is not a daemon process (running in the background). >> >> What is the proper way to resolve the different owners so I can run web2py >> server as a daemon and also in a secure way (not by sudo -- or does that >> matter)? >> >> Thank you-- I'm a noob! >> >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.
