The file welcome.w2p does not ship with web2py. It is created when the file NEWINSTALL is present. NEWINSTALL ships with web2py. How did you upgrade? If you upgrade from trunk, it is not there.
On Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:35:19 UTC-5, JoeCodeswell wrote: > > Hi Noel, > > I had this problem occur AGAIN, TODAY on WebFaction, when I upgraded to > Version 1.99.7 (2012-03-04 22:12:08) stable, Running on Apache/2.2.17 > (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.3. When creating a new simple app from the > web admin interface i get "unable to create application "newapp" (it may > exist already)" > > I checked and there is NO *welcome.w2p *in the *web2py* directory. Here > are the ssh commands i used. > > $ cd PATH/w2py/apache2/bin > $ ./stop > > $ cd ../.. > $ rm web2py_src.zip > > $ wget -q http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip > $ unzip -q web2py_src.zip > replace web2py/gluon/__init__.py? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: A > > $ cd PATH/w2py/apache2/bin > $ ./start > > $ cd ../.. > $ cd web2py > $ ls > anyserver.py gaehandler.py options_std.py setup_exe. > py > appengine_config.py gluon parameters_80.py setup.py > app.example.yaml __init__.py queue.example.yaml site- > packages > applications isapiwsgihandler.py README splashlogo. > gif > cgihandler.py LICENSE router.example.py VERSION > CHANGELOG logging.example.conf routes.example.py web2py.py > deposit logs scgihandler.py wsgihandler > .py > epydoc.conf Makefile scripts > epydoc.css modpythonhandler.py setup_app.py > fcgihandler.py NEWINSTALL setup_exe_2.6.py > > > > Is the *welcome.w2p *file missing in Version 1.99.7? How can it be > replaced? > > I'll start up a new topic entitled "Is the *welcome.w2p *file missing in > Version 1.99.7? " > > Thanks for the help. > > Love and peace, > > Joe > > > > On Sunday, April 8, 2012 4:17:22 PM UTC-7, Noel Villamor wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I encountered this issue as well. Here is how I resolved it. >> >> *- web2py directory should have welcome.w2p* >> >> Happy Easter! >> >> Noel Villamor >> >> >> On Sunday, 6 March 2011 09:54:19 UTC+13, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >>> > >>> > On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:35 AM, JoeCodeswell wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Something like you, Christopher, suggested was also suggested by the >>> >> Webfaction Support folks. This suggestion worked for me, after I had >>> >> investigated some other possibilities. >>> >> >>> >> You can read my blog post on this subject, "Fixing my "my web2py is >>> >> unable to create a new application on WebFaction" problem", which >>> >> references THIS web2py-users thread for "a full discussion of the >>> >> problem". Here is the link >>> http://joecodeswell.blogspot.com/2011/02/fixing-my-my-web2py-is-unable-to-create.html >>> > >>> > Do we know what's going on here? I'm guessing that it's the >>> initialization of the admin password. >>> >>> On second thought, that's not it. It'd be good to track it down and fix >>> it, though. >>> >>
