I use the python.org installer (2.7.8) without problems.

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:23:04 AM UTC+1, Tim Richardson wrote:
>
> In my case, I use activestate python 32 bit. Nothing from microsoft except 
> for the one script wfastcgi.py.
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:00:38 AM UTC+11, Derek wrote:
>>
>> So, I've tried those instructions, stumbled and tripped and fell and gave 
>> up. I tried to stick with official python.org binaries, and ran into 
>> some issues. i then installed python 2.7.3 via the microsoft installer, and 
>> it installs, but puts it in python27_x86 which screws up all your installed 
>> libraries. And you have to reinstall win32all again, and because you 
>> reinstalled win32all you have to reinstall wfastcgi... anyway, I gave up 
>> after getting my python all patched up and working again. Turns out 
>> greenlet won't work unless you have 2.7.5 (no reason why) but Microsoft 
>> only lets you install 2.7.3 via their web installer. In any case, it would 
>> be nice to have an installer where it checks your setup and tells you what 
>> to fix, like an interactive installer / iis setup configuration checker. 
>> like so...
>>
>> checking wfastcgi... installed.
>> checking python 2.7.5.... wrong version! go here to download....
>> checking iis 7+ .... installed 8x
>> checking...
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:19:47 PM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>>>
>>> ok, some problems arise.
>>> We can either go with a default script a-la 
>>> "setup-web2py-nginx-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh" that takes a freshly machine "devoted" 
>>> to web2py and does everything or with something else.
>>> Unfortunately the "let's spin up a free VM to host web2py" doesn't 
>>> really match web2py's user-case in Windows world.
>>> installing python, getting a self-signed certificate, installing a 
>>> database like some scripts do is unfeasible....
>>>
>>> Even with a stripped down script (and web.config), there are some steps 
>>> to do manually:
>>> - (needs manual intervention) installing the url-rewrite module (should 
>>> be there in any "sane" IIS installation....who does things without 
>>> rewriting urls these days :P)
>>> - (needs manual intervention) setting write permissions on the 
>>> app-folder (here comes the first issues.... by default you just add write 
>>> permissions to IIS_IUSRS that by default have read-only.....but you could 
>>> want to run the app in a stricter security-config, etc etc)..... 
>>> - (needs manual intervention) installing wfastcgi (although, 
>>> technically, it's apache 2.0 licensed, so we could ship it in 
>>> handlers/*)...@license specialists, please investigate
>>>
>>> That being said....if we ship web.config in "examples" and you place 
>>> iis_setup.ps1 in the root folder (where web2py.py lives) and you execute 
>>> it, it's enough to get everything going nicely.
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ni2wbxyh1r3nrxa/iis_web2py.zip?dl=0
>>>
>>> Please test it in a dev environment.
>>>
>>>
>>>

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