web2py installation requires deposit and logs directories in root folder

[hyanwong]

It seems like web2py tries to make a deposit folder in the root dir. The docs say:

The first time you start web2py, two new folders are created: deposit and applications. The deposit folder is used as temporary storage for installing and uninstalling applications.

When installing from scratch, the web process may not have write access, so we should create this folder with group write permissions e.g. in

OZtree/install-supervisord.sh

Line 16 in fb96f14

for APP_PATH in "${PROJECT_PATH}" "${ADMIN_PATH}"; do

if it doesn't exist.

The same seems to go for logs, which also seems to be required at the top level.

[lentinj]

It'd be nicer to knobble the need for deposit if we can. It's not immediately obvious why this would have been triggered, I'm guessing it's trying to install welcome.w2p or summat.

If you still have a stack trace for the original error, it'd be worth pasting in here.

[hyanwong]

This is what I saved. It might not be enough:

unable to load app 0 (mountpoint='') (callable not found or import error)
*** no app loaded. GAME OVER ***
    create_missing_folders()
  File "/usr/home/web2py/www.onezoom.org/gluon/fileutils.py", line 506, in create_missing_folders
    try_mkdir(abspath(path, gluon=True))
  File "/usr/home/web2py/www.onezoom.org/gluon/fileutils.py", line 495, in try_mkdir
    os.mkdir(path)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/home/web2py/www.onezoom.org/deposit'
unable to load app 0 (mountpoint='') (callable not found or import error)
*** no app loaded. GAME OVER ***

[lentinj]

Looks like it's gated behind a setting:

https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/69f34e290364a36a1185f49c029a62b45b63f9c2/gluon/fileutils.py#L503-L506

Dunno if that setting could be twiddled though (or what runtime_gae is).