On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:55 AM, ron_m wrote: > From reading elsewhere, editing the file also requires a server restart to > have the changes take effect. The restart is dependent on what web2py is > hosted behind and I don't believe that is in the web interface.
The server doesn't actually care what the routes policy is (unless, of course, you're doing rewriting in the server, as with Apache's mod_rewrite, but that doesn't have anything directly to do with routes.py). You have to call rewrite.load, which ordinarily is only done when web2py itself starts.
