AWS EC2 is nothing more of a linux server . to start executables listening on port 80 superuser permissions are needed, only "high ports" are allowed at "normal user" powers (that's why on production one usually deploys web2py BEHIND a real webserver). Enough of that said, starting with
python web2py.py -a mypwd should print out exactly what prints out in any platform, which is web2py Web Framework Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2015 Version x.x.x....... Database drivers available: ................ blablabla if that doesn't come out, it's hardly a web2py issue...check in another terminal with top (or htop) if the process is running or if there is anything else going on. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
