[web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-11-21 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
If you use the web2py binary distribution it comes with its own python. It does not install it. It stays in the web2py folder. It is like a portable version of python. If you wish you use your existing python version, you must run from source. On Nov 21, 5:06 pm, Robert Shaver wrote: > I am havin

[web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-11-21 Thread Robert Shaver
I am having exactly the same problem. I'm on Windows 7 64 bit. I searched my disk for Python and found 6,647 occurrences of the word. From the various names on the files I believe that I have versions 2.5, 2.6.1 and 2.6.6 as a result of installing web2py, OpenOffice, InkScape and Blender. So wh

Re: [web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-08-30 Thread Anthony
I'm running web2py source code version on Windows 7 with Python 2.7 with no problems. Anthony On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:56:25 AM UTC-4, larry wrote: > > Dear All, thanks for your prompt responses! This is a great community. i > was just coming back to report that i somehow got it working

Re: [web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-08-30 Thread Lawrence Agbemabiese
Dear All, thanks for your prompt responses! This is a great community. i was just coming back to report that i somehow got it working by installing python 2.5 (win) and trying again -- and it works! Except i don't like the idea of having two versions of python installed on my machine, but ok for n

[web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-08-30 Thread Anthony
If you have Python 2.7 installed on your system and you want web2py to use it, then you should download the web2py Source version (not the Windows version). To run the source version, click the web2py.py file in the /web2py folder (there's no web2py.exe file). The Windows version of web2py inclu

Re: [web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-08-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Alan Etkin wrote: > I am not sure, but it seems that another application is blocking the > access to port 8000. Did you check if the windows firewall is not > blocking the port?. Otherwise try specifying another port than 8000 > (higher) in the development server argum

[web2py] Re: cannot run web2py on windows 7 machine with python 2.7 installed

2011-08-30 Thread Alan Etkin
I am not sure, but it seems that another application is blocking the access to port 8000. Did you check if the windows firewall is not blocking the port?. Otherwise try specifying another port than 8000 (higher) in the development server arguments On Aug 30, 12:09 pm, larry wrote: > Dear All, i a