ERROR:root:New installation error: unable to create welcome.w2p file

[Rommel Sotto]

I have this error running it on macbook pro

I installed it thru git clone.

It does not also show the welcome page when i do 127.0.0.1:8000

any thing I can do to fix it?

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Did you do git clone --recursive as explained in the instructions?

[Terrence Monroe]

Even though I got the error about the welcome.w2p page, I think it somehow created it because this page looks normal after I enter a password:

https://www.evernote.com/l/ATU4g3b4sqVGRLbiOgwhp4Kt2WQaR7qbWDUB/image.png

[Tim Korb]

Did you do git clone --recursive as explained in the instructions?

The error message occurs the first time Web2Py is started after doing a full clone:

    $ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/web2py/web2py.git

    $ cd web2py

    $ python web2py.py

The code in fileutils.py creates welcome.w2p correctly, but then tries to unlink the missing NEWINSTALL file, which generates the (somewhat confusing) error.

The error appears harmless, but I see it every time Travis CI runs.