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**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