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Cannot "Add a new web app" if I select web2py

It asks the type of web app, then the directory, and there it fails, with the message:

Sorry, there was an error connecting to the server. Please try again in a few moments...

Django works, flask works, web2py fails

It's a begginner account.

Thanks

deleted-user-199314 | 7 posts | March 21, 2014, 10:30 p.m. | permalink

I think you may have found a bug, thanks! It looks like we have a problem where we expect all characters in the directory you put a web2py app in to be ASCII, and I think (judging from our logs) that you might be using accented or non-latin characters. Is that right? If so, then we'll definitely have to fix it, but you should be able to work around it by using latin-only characters.

Staff giles | 12644 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 22, 2014, 5:42 p.m. | permalink

I think there were such non-latin characters in the password, but definitely not in the path. Changed the password, it works allright now

deleted-user-199314 | 7 posts | March 22, 2014, 9:56 p.m. | permalink

OK, thanks for clarifying that -- I've made a note on the bug report.

Staff giles | 12644 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 23, 2014, 6:41 p.m. | permalink