Well, I have made some progress with the help provided here. Thanks so much for that.
Now I seem to be facing another issue that I do not understand. If using the MARKMIN access @////#/name.type for referencing attached media files to a page in the builtin wiki, I end up with the problem that the URLs generated for the Google Docs viewer are not working. For example, if it is a pdf that has been attached to the page (say, file.pdf), when viewing the page there is an attempt to provide a thumbnail with a link in the upper right for a popup viewer link. The url looks correct but the error from Google is "no preview available". In addition, there is no way to effect a download of the pdf to the client machine for local pdf viewing. For example, the url generated for an attached pdf is something like this: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://mydomain.org/myapp/default/index/20/071016.pdf. That all looks correct. The file is in the uploads folder correctly. But the handoff to Google Docs viewer fails. And I cannot download the file by right clicking on the preview icon, for example. The url is correct as proven by putting that https:// . . . url directly into a browser. The file is downloaded in that case. But even if I embed that exact url in my page text, it appears then as a clickable url but again I am take to Google Docs viewer that cannot display the page. So file service is failing completely except for audio (with the embedded html5 <audio> being done correctly by web2py and a right click on the player allowing download which is working OK. The player does not work on any Apple device, however, but it does work on Macs at least if a non-Safari browser is used. It does not work on Apple based non Macs though no matter what browser is used. All in all, therefore, using the wiki fails all around so far in my extensive efforts to make all of this work. All I want is a start using the builtin wiki or some other app to effect a simple site for file sharing. I would then go on from there with more extensive development of my site. Very frustrating start for me with web2py. Can anyone help? Is all of this really broken in web2py or am I still fighting config issues on my Debian Wheezy, Nginx, uwsgi machine? Thanks so much, \Jim On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 7:35:08 AM UTC-4, Jim Spoerl wrote: > > Hi all. > > I am very frustrated, I must say. After several weeks of work (and > reading and re-reading all that I have found online), I simply cannot get > installed a working environment. I do now have the latest stable release > of web2py installed along with nginx and uwsgi. That works as a framework > just fine. I played with the builtin wiki and found that instructive as > far as understanding how this all fits together. I am very impressed with > that. > > But as a shortcut (I am pretty new with python, admittedly), I have tried > some of the referenced appliances in the repo including, finally, outside > the repo, Instant Press. It was promising but it simply throws a lot of > exceptions as you start to use it. It also has not been maintained and > will not run without a lot of errors on the latest web2py (like KPax2, just > doesn't run any longer). > > None of the CMS-like apps work currently on web2py having not been > maintained for years. Where is that "backwards compatibility" when you > need it? > > So, I am looking for a quicker start by using someone's work to begin > with. What I want to build is a very simple site to start with (a CMS, > basically, including groups, a blog, etc., and with support for streaming > audio). > > I do not want to go the route of Django-CMS or something like that. I do > hope to stick with web2py. > > But I am very discouraged. I am NOT looking for something like Joomla or > Drupal - I have done that before already and for years getting boxed into > something that was incredibly unwieldy and large. > > I hope someone can give me some pointers. /Jim > -- 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.
