Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of InstallationGuidelines/PythonAnywhere

Timestamp:

06/26/14 22:23:45 (10 years ago)

Author:

Ambar Mehrotra

Comment:

Removed the draft status. This change is good to go.

InstallationGuidelines/PythonAnywhere

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-This is a  currently a draft only.
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 1. Sign up for a account at https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/ Beginner account will also do :)
 2. Go to web tab
-3. Press on add a new app button
-4. Configure the settings
+3. Press on add a new app button (Remember that you can only run a single app with a free account)
+4. Configure the settings:
+ - Select web2py (If you want to deploy eden)
+ - Select the directory where you want to put the files of your app (By default it is /home/your_username/web2py/)
+ - Enter the administrative password.
+ - You will be issued with a domain which can be used to access your web2py app. (In case of a free account, it will be your_username.pythonanywhere.com)
 5. After completing configuration, go to Files tab
 6. There you will find a folder as specified by you in settings
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 10. You can also pull code from github
  - Go to Consoles tab and open Bash editor
- - Go to applications directory (cd Your_Folder/applications)
- - $ git clone [url of your repo : https://github.com/username/repo_name]
+ - Go to applications directory of your web2py project(cd your_app_folder/applications/)
+ - $ Clone the repo you want to deploy : git clone https://github.com/username/repo_name
+11. You have are now good to go and start the web2py server
+12. Go to /home/your_username/web2py/ using the bash editor
+13. Run the following command:
+ - $ python web2py.py -a "your_desired_password"
+14. This will start the web2py server on your created domain for this app (https://your_username.pythonanywhere.com/ in case of a free account)
+15. You can now navigate to other tabs(or do other things) and the bash console will keep running as a separate thread. In order to kill the current console you can go to "Console" tab and kill the desired bash console from the list.