I always just copy applications/welcome. Works perfectly every time.
On Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:35:19 PM UTC-7, JoeCodeswell wrote: > > Hi Noel, > > I had this problem occur AGAIN, TODAY on WebFaction, when I upgraded to > Version 1.99.7 (2012-03-04 22:12:08) stable, Running on Apache/2.2.17 > (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.3. When creating a new simple app from the > web admin interface i get "unable to create application "newapp" (it may > exist already)" > > I checked and there is NO *welcome.w2p *in the *web2py* directory. Here > are the ssh commands i used. > > $ cd PATH/w2py/apache2/bin > $ ./stop > > $ cd ../.. > $ rm web2py_src.zip > > $ wget -q http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip > $ unzip -q web2py_src.zip > replace web2py/gluon/__init__.py? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: A > > $ cd PATH/w2py/apache2/bin > $ ./start > > $ cd ../.. > $ cd web2py > $ ls > anyserver.py gaehandler.py options_std.py setup_exe. > py > appengine_config.py gluon parameters_80.py setup.py > app.example.yaml __init__.py queue.example.yaml site- > packages > applications isapiwsgihandler.py README splashlogo. > gif > cgihandler.py LICENSE router.example.py VERSION > CHANGELOG logging.example.conf routes.example.py web2py.py > deposit logs scgihandler.py wsgihandler > .py > epydoc.conf Makefile scripts > epydoc.css modpythonhandler.py setup_app.py > fcgihandler.py NEWINSTALL setup_exe_2.6.py > > > > Is the *welcome.w2p *file missing in Version 1.99.7? How can it be > replaced? > > I'll start up a new topic entitled "Is the *welcome.w2p *file missing in > Version 1.99.7? " > > Thanks for the help. > > Love and peace, > > Joe > > > > On Sunday, April 8, 2012 4:17:22 PM UTC-7, Noel Villamor wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I encountered this issue as well. Here is how I resolved it. >> >> *- web2py directory should have welcome.w2p* >> >> Happy Easter! >> >> Noel Villamor >> >> >> On Sunday, 6 March 2011 09:54:19 UTC+13, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >>> > >>> > On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:35 AM, JoeCodeswell wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Something like you, Christopher, suggested was also suggested by the >>> >> Webfaction Support folks. This suggestion worked for me, after I had >>> >> investigated some other possibilities. >>> >> >>> >> You can read my blog post on this subject, "Fixing my "my web2py is >>> >> unable to create a new application on WebFaction" problem", which >>> >> references THIS web2py-users thread for "a full discussion of the >>> >> problem". Here is the link >>> http://joecodeswell.blogspot.com/2011/02/fixing-my-my-web2py-is-unable-to-create.html >>> > >>> > Do we know what's going on here? I'm guessing that it's the >>> initialization of the admin password. >>> >>> On second thought, that's not it. It'd be good to track it down and fix >>> it, though. >>> >>
