SSH PORT FORWARDING

You may want to use ssh port forwarding for web2py development. This is because

"web2py is secure"

Since admin gives you r/w rights to database it can not be accessed via plain http.

Good idea is to use two instances of web2py for development purposes.

First instance

python web2py.py -i public_ip -p 80 -a ""

Second instance

python web2py.py -i 127.0.0.1 -p 8001 -a "password"

one instance serves your beta testers and users, the second one runs just for you

There is one more thing to do, we have to esablish a tunnel between our workstation and the server:

ssh -L 8001:127.0.0.1:8001 user@server

the first "8001" is your local port on the machine that runs your browser

the :127.0.0.1:8001 is where you estabilished your web2py instance on the server.

then type:

firefox http://127.0.0.1:8001

or enter the url in your browser.