web2py -f folder It should work but you may want to check. Perhaps we may need a patch.
Massimo On Oct 13, 1:55 pm, José L. <jredr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, as it seems that time goes by, and no available packages for > Debian are ready, I'm going to begin to work on it seriously to upload > web2py to Debian. > I know > (http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/45ea4327d7... > ) Mark told he was going to work on it, but I think that I have been > patient enough waiting since April. It's not only Debian is one of the > most important Linux distribution, also many other distributions as > Ubuntu are derivatives from Debian, so uploading web2py to Debian will > bring it to many users in the Linux world. > > I'd like to have a package similar to the django one. There is a > python-django package, and I'd like to make a python-web2py package to > work in a similar way, so people don't need to relearn a new method of > work. > I'd like it to work as similar as possible > tohttp://codeghar.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/django-in-ubuntu/. > > So, the main question for me is: > once gluon is installed in the PYTHONPATH and web2py.py installed in / > usr/bin, I would like to be able to tell the user: > execute python web2py.py in any directory and point your browser > tohttp://localhost:8000to begin to work. > > But, as web2py structure is today, I don't know if such thing is > possible (after adding every needed file to every needed path). > > If not, what other approaches might be used to make any user in the > system able to use a system with a installed web2py structure? > > On the other hand, if more people want to collaborate in the packaging > I'll be glad to open a project in alioth.debian.org, so we can work > together. > > Regards. > José L.