Ok. understood the problem. I had to run another version of web2py in the remote (prod) server on different port in fact.
On Jul 22, 10:13 am, Narendran <gunanar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > As widely recommended, > 1. I have removed the parameters_*.py on my prod server. > 2. Established an ssh connection to my prod server from my local host > on my_port. > 3. Started web2py locally on that port with -a '<ask> option. > 4. Now, if I try to accesshttp://localhost:my_port/admin, I get this > message: > admin disabled because unable to access password file > > Am I missing something here? > > -- > Thanks > Narendran