woah! i just found it. i neglected to mention that i was running on gae, using the mac sdk. i didn't think to mention it. but it looks like that's an important piece here.
i had been checking my log file and it was telling me it was returning 404 errors. unfortunately, i took that to mean that i was screwing up the routing somehow. as it turns out, when i downloaded web2py from the server, it apparently created an extra line (as compared to my last version) in the app.yaml file that told it to skip appadmin: [snip] skip_files: | ^(.*/)?( (app\.yaml)| (app\.yml)| (index\.yaml)| (index\.yml)| (#.*#)| (.*~)| (.*\.py[co])| (.*/RCS/.*)| (\..*)| (applications/(admin|examples)/.*)| ((admin|examples|welcome)\.(w2p|tar))| (applications/.*?/(cron|databases|errors|cache|sessions)/.*)| * (applications/.*?/controllers/appadmin\.py)|* ((logs|scripts)/.*)| [/snip] that's why it couldn't find the controller. by simply removing that line, saving the file and restarting the server, appadmin worked. sorry for sending us down a different road by thinking it was routes. i'm not sure why that line was added, but i would suggest we remove it unless there's a particular reason it's in there. otherwise people like me will have to go in and delete it every time we upgrade. thanks for the help, matt
