Mark is right. If you use a VPN like AWS, you are better off setting up a production system using one of the install script provided. For example
web2py/scripts/setup-web2py-nginx-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh Notice that if you have the latest web2py and you have installed it locally and you have fabric you can simply run locally: cd web2py fab -H r...@yourhost.com install_web2py cd applications/myapp fab -H r...@yourhost.com deploy On Saturday, 23 January 2016 14:58:25 UTC-6, Mark Graves wrote: > > Re reading your answer, > > check the access logs. > > See if rocket is getting overwhelmed by robots or other spam traffic. > > consider installing ip tables if thats the case or use nginx. > > -Mark > > On Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 1:46:56 AM UTC-6, Dave S wrote: >> >> I'm trying to set up a demo on an AWS free-tier linux system. I'm >> running web2py in shake-the-box mode (sorry, model railroad talk ... I >> mean, "using the easy-to-assemble kit"), including the Rocket server. >> Installation was easy, I successfully untarred my app's w2p bundle, and >> fired up the python with the -i 0.0.0.0 argument. >> >> This all seems to work if I access from the VM's command line, using curl >> http://127.0.0.1/welcome, or the local subnet ip ( >> http://169.XX.XX.XX/welcome), but not with the public IP (52.yy.yy.yy), >> and access from browsers not on the subnet times out, as well. The EC2 >> security group has had the http port opened. >> >> BTW, the same VM is also used for a demo FTP server, and some clients >> *can* reach the FTP server. >> >> Anyone else with experience on this? >> >> Dave >> /dps >> >> -- 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.
