The admin is not mandatory, you can upload your chages via FTP. Also, you can create a password file (parameters_xxxx.py, replace xxx with the port number) just running web2py in your local machine, and then upload it too your server (copy it to the folder where web2py.py resides).
Best regards, Mariano Reingart http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar http://reingart.blogspot.com On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Edward Shave <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, despite being a total novice with little or no experience beyond windows > I have managed to install web2py on a webfaction shared server. By > substituting my webfaction application listening port into the instructions > I found here... > http://docs.webfaction.com/user-guide/databases.html#starting-an-ssh-tunnel-with-putty I > can connect to my web2py application over SSH. Problem is when I try to > access admin I get.... " admin disabled because unable to access password > file". > > I found a lot of references to this error when searching the group but no > real answer. There was some talk of admin using port 80 maybe when looking > for the password? Another suggestion was that I should have two instances of > web2py running on the server but I think that's only necessary if admin has > been disabled, which in my case I don't think it has. Either way I don't > know how to go about fixing it. > > Here you can find the web2py install script I used... > http://community.webfaction.com/questions/7193/install-web2py-with-nginx-and-uwsgi > > One last question... Is there any need to access admin on the server? I'm > wondering if I can just make changes localy then upload the changes via ftp?
