Thanks. The "folder" option in options.py seems like a decent solution for the moment. However, if I understand right, it would still require me to move the existing applications (like admin) along with my own apps.
Have you considered adding a feature to web2py to allow the directory for each application to be specified individually, rather than having them all under a single global applications directory? For instance, why couldn't the "folder" option you mentioned instead be a list of folders? On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 3:20:58 PM UTC-8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Hello Brendan, there is not one solution to this problem. What is > important is that there is one one web2py folder and one applications > (plural) folder. Normally the latter is under the former but it does not > have to be. Each application you run must be a subfolder of that one > applications folder. > > This is because unlike Flask and other frameworks where the application is > the entry point and it imports the modules you need and therefore you run > one server per each application, in web2py, web2py is the entry point. You > run one server which serves all your applications. It also runs the web > based IDE (unless you remove it) and that needs to know where to put > applications uploaded via the web interface. > > So the two options are (not exclusive) > > 1) move the applications folder outside the web2py folder (this is cone by > copying web2py/examples/options_std.py into web2py/options.py, edit it, and > set folder = to the location where to find applications) > 2) move an individual app outside the applications folder (this require > that you symlink it under the applications folder) > > Massimo > > > > > On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 17:05:57 UTC-6, Brendan Barnwell wrote: >> >> I've recently begun looking at web2py. It looks very nice. However, one >> thing that seems strange to me is that it is apparently not set up to be >> installed. Rather, to "install" it you just copy the web2py files (or >> clone the repo) into a directory. That install then "knows" about all the >> applications stored under its directory tree. >> >> This seems like a rather odd setup. With this setup, my application is >> stored under the web2py directory tree. But I want to put my application >> code in its own directory --- in particular, in its own repository. My >> application's code should be handled separately from the code of web2py >> itself. >> >> Also, it's not clear to me how I would then deploy my application without >> also "installing" web2py separately for each app. So, if I want to copy >> some files to my web server to run an app, I would expect to install web2py >> ONCE to the server, and then set up my app to use the existing web2py >> installation. But with the way it's actually set up, it appears I would >> have to install separate copies of web2py for each app, which seems rather >> wasteful. >> >> I found an old post ( >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/3FWZCmLzhzc) where >> someone talks about handling this by symlinking from the web2py directory >> to the "real" app directory. Is this really the way you have to do it? >> Isn't there a way to take JUST my own application code, and tell it where >> to find web2py (or tell web2py where to find my app), and then get web2py >> to run my app regardless of where they each are on the drive? I want a >> clean separation between the code that is part of the web2py framework >> itself and the code that is specific to my app. >> >> Thanks, >> Brendan >> > -- 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.
