On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 12:33:15 AM UTC-7, Carlos Kitu wrote: > > Just to share a finding, > > I was getting crazy with a simple installation of a new application on > Windows Server and Internet Information Server. Many applications in > production with no issues, I could upload any other application, but was > getting the "unable to install application" with an specific application. I > could discard any permissions problem because there where no recent changes > in the server. > I could upload that application without problems in my development > environment, in Ubuntu. > > This issue was difficult to debug because with IIS you have no console to > see the traceback. > > Finally I resorted to make a tar xvcf with the .w2p file just to see what > was inside. Then I could see the offending file. It was a broken link. When > uploading the package with the broken link in ubuntu, it could deal with > it without problems. Seems that Windows Server and IIS can't manage it and > the installation fails. I just needed to remove the broken link in my > source folder, pack again the application and everything worked fine > uploading in Windows/IIS. > > It's improbable that this happens again to anybody, but maybe someone can > save some time with this post. > > Best regards. >
Thanks for sharing this. Any idea of where the broken link came from? /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.
