Never mind. I figured it out. "www-data" is the user name for the home/
directory holding my web2py data. I'm still not sure about "restarting a
web2py instance" but I restarted apache and the new password worked.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Ian
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 11:46:44 AM UTC-5, Richard wrote:
>
> Hello Ian,
>
> Not sure I understand your exact problem, but you can reset admin password
> like this :
>
> sudo -u www-data python -c "from gluon.main import save_password;
> save_password('123456',443)"
>
> Where 123456 is you pass phrase.
>
> 443 is the port for which the password apply
>
> This will create parameters_443.py file that you drop/replace in the
> web2py/ folder and then restart web2py instance and the new generated
> password should work.
>
> Richard
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Ian W. Scott <scot...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I seem to have forgotten the admin password for my web2py installation,
>> so I need to change it. Looking at posts here, the recommendation was:
>>
>> 1 - stop apache server
>> 2 - restart web2py
>> 3 - enter new password
>> 4 - restart apache server
>>
>> I'm getting stuck at 2. The only way I know how to "restart" web2py is to
>> run web2py.py from the base web2py directory. But when I do that I get
>> web2py running on the rocket server. I can change the admin password for
>> the rocket server session, but when I stop the rocket server and restart
>> apache the new password I entered doesn't work.
>>
>> The other command someone recommended here to "restart web2py" was
>> 'python web2py'. But when I just run that command from my home directory I
>> get this error:
>>
>> /usr/bin/python: can't find '__main__' module in 'web2py'
>>
>> I'm really confused.
>>
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