I'll be joining this discussion as soon as I get time to install a fresh system. ATM I can't replicate your issues, but TBF I tested the creation of applications only 2008r2 and 2012 and no 2012r2 (where I did a fast check to ensure it was running like on 2012)
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:24:35 PM UTC+2, Tim Richardson wrote: > > My monologue continues ... > > I found something interesting by accident. If the directory that the > controller tries to write to is not under the document root of the website > , then there is no problem. It merrily writes .py files. I discovered this > because I have a controller which does the same untarring that admin does > when it installs a new app. I hardcoded directory paths in. I did not > update these paths after copying the entire docroot to a different drive, > and to my surprise the tar extraction ran without trouble. Usually it dies > as soon as it encounters the first .py file. > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:16:11 AM UTC+11, Tim Richardson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:50:55 UTC+10, Tim Richardson wrote: >>> >>> I made a new docroot folder and cloned web2py into it. >>> So when the site runs for the first time, it attempts to create folders. >>> There is a permission error because it can't do this. >>> >>> I looked at the permissions granted to the default docroot >>> (inetpub/wwwroot) but it wasn't obvious to me what to do, except that a >>> group called IIS_IUsRS seems to be relevant (although it does not get >>> write permissions in the default folder). >>> >>> Temporarily I have given "everyone" write permission, and got as far as >>> web2py admin being denied because "unable to access password file", which >>> is expected behaviour, I believe (since there isn't one yet). >>> >>> >> >> I've tried again, with a brand new IIS 8 installation. I also moved the >> webroot to drive C in case it was a problem with the resilient file system >> on the other drive. But same problem. It can not reliably save/edit files >> ending in .py. On the first attempt, communication error. A second attempt >> can result in a "file changed on disk" message and a merge changes result. >> Or it could mean I am left with a 0 byte file. Reloading sometimes shows >> the edits and sometimes the file is completely empty. I can't see any >> consistency. It is not a permission problem. I know that because there are >> no issues with editing views; I only see this with .py files. >> >> Note that this inability to write .py files also stops admin from >> creating new apps, which is the problem I first saw. >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- 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.
