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Step 1: Python 2.6 proper setup
On Linux be sure to install sqlite development library; the following command will help on RedHat:
sudo apt-get install sqlite-devel
Install python 2.6, this will avoid the need of additional libraries.
You will also need openssl, so if you haven’t it issue commands like
sudo apt-get install openssl
and be sure to get also the python wrapper pyOpenSSL hosted here
We happly compiled pyOpenSSL from sources
For more tips and tricks look also at this recipe about Apache Setup, if you need it.
Step 2: Download web2py
To get more information on web2py read the online book
Step 3:Customize “options_std.py”
It is very important to reduce typing, and the options file of web2py is a true solution on this side.
the only thing you need after customiziong options_std is
./web2py.py -L options_std.py