I found an interesting discussion on this here: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/1c3621393c7f0a33
It includes a nice one for starting and stopping Web2py from the command line that Jonathan Lundell made from a script in scripts/ Seems to work great on OS X. C. On May 6, 2:14 pm, Christopher Steel <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are running OS X or some other nix like OS you can use the GUI > in which case you need to type your administrative password or you can > go without the GUI in which case you need to manually point your > browser to the correct location. > > You can have both with these two collections of commands run at the > command line. The first is to start up, the second to shut down. > > # STARTUP > # First we launch web2py, assign password "test" and run on port 8000 > # Then we save our PID (process ID) to a text file to use later when > we want to shut down > # Next we take a short snooze for dramatic effect and to make sure > Web2py is up and running (2 seconds, not bad my friends....) > # Finally we launch a new tab in Firefox with our website. The example > here works for OS X, you can figure out what it is for your OS > > python web2py.py -a test -p 8000& # launch web2py as process in > background > echo $! > PID.TXT& # use $! var to get last PID > started, save to file PID.TXT > sleep 2 # take a short nap ...zzzzz > open -a > /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-binhttp://127.0.0.1:8000/& > # open firefox tab > > # SHUTDOWN > # first we cat the contents of our PID.TXT file and send the output > the the variable called "pid" > # Next we run the kill command using the var containing our PID > > pid=`cat PID.TXT` # grab our web2py PID > kill -KILL $pid # kill the PID
