Ubuntu 14.04 Setup Script with Apache - Issues?

[Brian M]

Anybody else tried setting things up on Ubuntu 14.04 using scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh?  I tried it this evening and ran into multiple issues
1) The generated sites-available/default configuration file must be linked to sites-enabled/default.conf or else it doesn't actually get used and all you get are 404 errors. (Note also that you need to have the .conf extension, simply doing a symbolic link from sites-available/default to sites-enabled/default won't work)
2) The granting of permissions in Apache 2.4 seems to have changed. (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html) In order to get things working I had to go from
  <Directory /home/www-data/web2py>
    AllowOverride None
    Order Allow,Deny
    Deny from all
    <Files wsgihandler.py>
      Allow from all
    </Files>
  </Directory>
To
<Directory /home/www-data/web2py>
    AllowOverride None
    #Order Allow,Deny
    #Deny from all
    Require all granted
    <Files wsgihandler.py>
      Require all granted
    </Files>
  </Directory>


Note that I am not an expert in configuring Apache and don't know that these changes won't have unwanted security issues, I just know that they seem to be needed to get web2py up and running on Ubuntu 14.04.

3) The AliasMatch for using response.static_version doesn't seem to be working for me either. :( As soon as I set response.static_version in welcome/models/db.py all of the .js and .css files just return 404 errors.


Anybody more knowledgeable than me want to take a look and perhaps offer a patch for the setup script?

Thanks,
Brian

[Brian M]

Ah, I figured out the problem with response.static_version the secret is that you MUST use the format #.#.# for the regex to work, so if you just put a value of say 0.1 like I did it won't match but if you put something like 0.1.0 your good to go.

Still suspect there the other conduit issues might need addressing.

Brian

[shachar lobl]

I'm also experiencing these problems installing on Ubuntu 14.04 as well for the past few days. I've followed all the steps on different tutorials and I still can only get the Apache default page. I was doing this to get a better knowledge of building web apps and I don't have much knowledge of Apache. Based on this thread, I'm going to spin up a server with a different OS to avoid the issues. Thanks

[Brian M]

The nginx setup script works perfectly on ubuntu 14.04.

As for Apache, the changes I mentioned above should get it working just fine as well.