Please check the version in trunk. It should give you a more detailed error.
On Aug 6, 3:06 am, Zhe Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I tried to deploy web2py on my ubuntu server using > setup_web2py_ubuntu.sh. Everything seemed fine except when I switch > database from SQLite to PostgreSQL I got: > > Error traceback > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in restricted > exec ccode in environment > File "/home/www-data/web2py/applications/init/models/db.py", line > 16, in <module> > db = DAL('postgres://web2py:[email protected]:1216/labdb', > pool_size=10) > File "gluon/sql.py", line 3911, in DAL > raise RuntimeError, "Failure to connect to DB. Tried 5 times" > RuntimeError: Failure to connect to DB. Tried 5 times > > but if I run the web server using: > > python web2.py > > it works fine. I got the same issue with MySQL as well. > > Could you tell me what the problem might be? Thanks! > > Cheers, > Zhe
