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--- web2py_on_dreamhost [2017/01/16 08:34] – jtkorb
+++ web2py_on_dreamhost [2018/04/22 14:53] – typo jtkorb
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 ====== Installing Web2Py on DreamHost ======
+<WRAP important>\\ **Under construction!**</WRAP>
   * For starters, see the README file at https://github.com/web2py/web2py.
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   $ virtualenv python
-  * Clone sources from Web2Py github site into web-server directory (using web2py.bikmort.com as an example):
+  * Clone sources from the Web2Py github site((You might prefer to go to github.com and create a fork of the Web2Py sources, then clone your fork.  That's what all the cool kids do.)) into web-server directory (using web2py.bikmort.com as an example):
   $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/web2py/web2py.git web2py.bikmort.com
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   * An empty WDW application at https://bitbucket.org/jtkorb/wdw.
   * Clone into applications directory and it (should be) ready to go.
-  * Current model is to develop on laptop, test locally, commit changes, ssh to buxton.dreamhost.com, and pull changes to applications/wdw.
+  * Current model is to develop on laptop, test locally, commit changes, ssh to DreamHost server, and pull changes to applications/wdw directory.
 ===== Sending Email from Web2Py Using Google G Suite =====
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   * Use SSL with port 465
   * At Google-app admin site: allow insecure applications and disable captcha.
+===== Remote Admin Access =====
+These steps allow remote browser access to the Web2Py administrative control panels (both the master panel at ''admin'' as well as the app-specific panels at ''MYAPP/appadmin''.
+  * Enable https from the DreamHost [[https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage|domain management panel]].
+  * The free certificate from "Let's Encrypt SSL" works.
+  * Wait for a few minutes for the certificate to get created and installed.
+  * Restart the web server by touching tmp/restart.txt.
+  * Set an admin password.
+  $ python web2py.py -p 443 -a "secret-secure-password"
+This command will give errors (for among other reasons, a user process cannot listen on port 443), but it will have generated the necessary ''parameters_443.py'' file.
+To redirect all accesses to be via https, there are two options:
+  - Use an .htaccess file to do a redirect as described by DreamHost [[https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215747758-How-do-I-force-my-site-to-load-securely-with-an-htaccess-file-|here]].
+  - Use Web2Py Auth(..., secure=True) setting, but note that this change breaks Travis CI testing.
+In either case, there might be cached browser files that break the redirect, for example, redirecting http://www.mysite.com/myapp to https://www.mysite.com/public/myapp.  Verify by opening an incognito window; fix by clearing cached files in the browser.