Thank you Limodou for all your work on this
web2py supports windows service install/start/stop now in source version. If you want to use it, you should create an options.py (for default usage) with startup parameters or specify an option file with -L <optionsfile> parameter in the command line.
The options.py could be like this:
import socket, os
ip = socket.gethostname()
port = 80
password = '<recycle>' ### <recycle> means use the previous password
pid_filename = 'httpserver.pid'
log_filename = 'httpserver.log'
ssl_certificate = '' ### path to certificate file
ssl_private_key = '' ### path to private key file
numthreads = 10
server_name = socket.gethostname()
request_queue_size = 5
timeout = 10
shutdown_timeout = 5
folder = os.getcwd()
And you don't need to create options.py manually, there is already an options_std.py in web2py folder, so you can copy it and name it options.py or just specify it in command line via -L parameter.
then run:
python2.5 web2py.py -W install #install web2py as a windows service
python2.5 web2py.py -W start -L options.py #if you don't give -L parameter, the default configure file will be options.py
python2.5 web2py.py -W stop