Hi Massimo, I posted an issue on Google code for checking the return value of app_create. That is only a side-issue for me, since the real real question is why app_create is failing.
After much poking around, I discovered that I was missing the file welcome.w2p from the web2py directory. This caused w2p_unpack() to fail silently (it doesn't return anything anyway) which caused failures up the chain. I'd like to open a googlecode issue for this also, but I don't know where I was supposed to get welcome.w2p in the first place. It's not in the zip file we started from, so why does my original desktop version of web2py have it? Once I know how I was supposed to get it, I'll determine if it was my error, or file a cogent bug report as to why it was not created. Thanks, Ed On Jan 26, 9:01 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > My todo list is getting long today. Can you please open a googlecode > issue? > > On Jan 25, 9:28 pm, Ed Greenberg <greenberg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a new centos installation. I followed the script > > athttp://web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/98. When I use the new > > application wizard, I get the same traceback that others have > > posted: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/opt/web-apps/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 188, in > > restricted > > exec ccode in environment > > File "/opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/ > > wizard.py", line 572, in <module> > > File "/opt/web-apps/web2py/gluon/globals.py", line 95, in <lambda> > > self._caller = lambda f: f() > > File "/opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/ > > wizard.py", line 200, in step6 > > create(form.vars) > > File "/opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/ > > wizard.py", line 489, in create > > file=open(meta,'wb') > > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/web-apps/web2py/ > > applications/admin/../xxx/wizard.metadata' > > > When I use the "New Simple Application" part of the admin page, all I > > get is a "Flash" that says, "unable to create application <appname>" > > > I've poked around in the code, and I believe that the problem takes > > place a few lines BEFORE the offending line 489, as follows: > > > On line 485, we find > > "app_create(app,request,force=True,key=params['security_key'])" > > > App_create, which is defined in gluon/admin.py, needs to create the > > directory in applications to hold the app. This function returns True > > or False, but line 485 does not check the return value. > > > My first thought was that the os.mkpath in app_create was failing. I > > still believe this, since the directory is not being created. > > > I checked the permissions. The applications directory is owned by > > 'apache'. The web server is running as apache. Even WSGI is set to > > run as apache. So how can os.mkdir(path) fail? > > > No errors are generated in the web server's error log for this, and > > the only clue I have is the traceback when using the wizard. > > > Any help appreciated. > >
