Fabulous, That seemed to do the tricked.
Dreamhost seems to be a bit touchy on which ports you I can use to run web2py on. (ie none of 8000, 8001, 8080, 8081, etc seemed to work) But I just picked a random number and it seems to work like a charm. I'll have to add this to Dreamhost's wiki. Thanks a bunch, Jesse On Mar 6, 7:04 pm, Kuba Kucharski <kuba.kuchar...@gmail.com> wrote: > let's get you through it. > > for development I use two instances of web2py. > > one: > > python web2py.py -i public_ip -p 80 -a "" > > two: > > python web2py.py -i public_ip -p 8001 -a "password" > > one instance serves my beta testers and users, the second on runs just for me > > then I do: > > ssh -L 8001:127.0.0.1:8001 k...@server > > and type 127.0.0.1:8001 in my browser. I promise you it will work. > > the first "8001" is my local port on my desktop > the :127.0.0.1:8001 part is where I estabilished my web2py instance on > the server. that is all. > > happy hacking. > > -- > Kuba -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.