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Duncan Macmillan
Duncan Macmillan

Reputation: 11

How to open a .W2P (web2py) file on Ubuntu - rookie user

I am following a tutorial to learn my way around web2py.

When I pack the site and download it as a .w2p file, that filetype is not associated with any application.

Is there something I should have installed that I don't? What would that be?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1259

Answers (2)

Anthony
Anthony

Reputation: 25536

The .w2p file is intended to be loaded via the web2py admin app, so typically you would just run web2py, go to the admin app, and upload the file -- the admin app will then handle unpacking the app into a folder in /web2py/applications/.

However, the .w2p file is just a .tar.gz file (i.e., the files have been packaged into a tar file and then compressed via gzip). So, you can also use the standard tools to uncompress and unpack -- see this question.

For more details, see the documentation.

Upvotes: 2

aussieshibe
aussieshibe

Reputation: 153

Assuming you have w2p installed on your local machine, it sounds like you need to change the file association in your file manager. See this link Ask Ubuntu.

If you don't have web2py installed, there's a tutorial for installing it on Ubuntu here.

Upvotes: 0

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