I thought this was going to be easy. Boy, was I wrong. Lots of good documentation for ubuntu 11.10 from both ubuntu and linode. I got apache, ssl, mysql, php, mod_wsgi, and phpmyadmin working perfectly first time, no stumbles.
But, then I tried to make the mods to httpd.conf (really, its includes) to enable wsgi for web2py. No go. I think I am running into all kinds of user / group permissions problems where the OS blocks permission. Here is the apache2 error log of my last attempt: Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] ERROR:web2py:Traceback (most recent call last): [Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/web2py/ gluon/main.py", line 441, in wsgibase [Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] create_missing_app_folders(request) [Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/web2py/ gluon/admin.py", line 451, in create_missing_app_folders [Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] os.mkdir(path) [Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/web2py/applications/welcome/databases' [Thu Jan 19 22:42:19 2012] [error] I am really leary of running big scripts because things change that I don't want to change. The only real exceptions I need are a way to setup an alias to access phpmyadmin via ssl to administer the mysql databases. it would be nice to also have an alias for a trivial static html file so that I can quickly verify that the overall domain is accessible. I tried to follow a script that Massimo recommended, just pasting in things for the default file (defining virtual hosts). I also ran any step manually from the script that I had not previously performed. The sudo's to do what I think are creating a web2py group may not have worked. Here is the link to that script: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh When running the sudo - u python -c ... lines at the bottom I have never successfully gotten a parameters.80 or parameters.443 file (realize I don't have the exact name correct--but I am not doing it manually--trying to let the bash command do it) to be created. Likely part of the problem. The only changes I have made are to split the .conf files for virtualhost *:80 and virtualhost *:443 into two files instead of combining them and adding the aliases mentioned above. I think there is also a question of whether I need a DocumentRoot directive. I have tried with and without (which is probably right) and it doesn't matter. I think the os permissions are the problem. "web2py" needs rwx privileges on pretty much everything within the web2py directory I guess. But, I have not seen any of the recipes explicitly address this--so I had not realized that I had to manually change them. I need to learn a lot more about user and group permissions on Linux. There are just layers and layers to the onion. I thought I was mostly programming python, learning a framework, configuring apache, cleaning up html and css, and understanding how the framework does its queries-- all of which I have made much progress on. But, there is seemingly no end to the multi-layered complex dependencies. I bet this will turn out to be something simpler than I realize. At least I hope so. Thanks.
