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-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# when web2py is run as a windows service (web2py.py -W)
-# it does not load the command line options but it
-# expects to find configuration settings in a file called
-#
-#   web2py/options.py
-#
-# this file is an example for options.py
-
-import socket
-import os
-
-ip = '0.0.0.0'
-port = 80
-interfaces = [('0.0.0.0', 80)]
-               #,('0.0.0.0',443,'ssl_private_key.pem','ssl_certificate.pem')]
-password = '<recycle>'  # ## <recycle> means use the previous password
-pid_filename = 'httpserver.pid'
-log_filename = 'httpserver.log'
-profiler_filename = None
-ssl_certificate = ''  # 'ssl_certificate.pem'  # ## path to certificate file
-ssl_private_key = ''  # 'ssl_private_key.pem'  # ## path to private key file
-#numthreads = 50 # ## deprecated; remove
-minthreads = None
-maxthreads = None
-server_name = socket.gethostname()
-request_queue_size = 5
-timeout = 30
-shutdown_timeout = 5
-folder = os.getcwd()
-extcron = None
-nocron = None