CoolProp Online#

The online version of CoolProp is stored at CoolProp/CoolProp-Online. It is an application for web2py. It is deployed to PythonAnywhere, and served from there. To get it working:

Getting going on PythonAnywhere#

  1. In PythonAnywhere, add a new web app, select your username

  2. Make sure that you can get to https://YOURUSERNAME.pythonanywhere.com and you don’t get an error (ok, good, web2py is running). Your admin page is https://ibell.pythonanywhere.com/admin/default/index

  3. Open a shell in /home/YOURUSERNAME/web2py/applications

  4. git clone https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp-Online coolpropgit to check out the application

  5. Reset the web application in Web tab in PythonAnywhere, go to admin webpage (https://YOURUSERNAME.pythonanywhere.com/admin/default/index), make sure you can see coolpropgit application

  6. Deposit a file called routes.py in /home/YOURUSERNAME/web2py with the contents:

    routers = dict(
    BASE = dict(
        default_application='coolpropgit',
    )
)

  7. Restart the webservice

  8. Page should serve properly, and redirect to the appropriate page

Running application locally#

Warning

Make sure you install mpld3!

Same basic protocol…

  1. Check out the source of web2py (http://www.web2py.com/init/default/download)

  2. Open shell in unzipped web2py folder

  3. cd applications

  4. git clone https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp-Online coolpropgit to check out the application

  5. cd ..

  6. python web2py.py

Useful information#