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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