Getting a Flask website up and running in Ubuntu

http://kramerapps.com/blog/post/22551999777/flask-uwsgi-nginx-ubuntu

by conradev • 14 years ago

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espeed2• 14 years ago

If you don't want to mess with setting up Web servers, sign up for a Heroku account (https://api.heroku.com/signup), and host it on a free dyno.

First set up the Heroku "toolbelt" (https://toolbelt.heroku.com), and once that's done, you can run this bash script (https://gist.github.com/2622850) to create and deploy a "hello world" Flask app on Heroku:

  $ heroku login
  $ bash setup.sh helloworld
  $ cd helloworld
  $ git push heroku master

It should return a live Web URL for your app:

  http://strong-stream-5848.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

Kenneth (http://kennethreitz.com) has shown you can get good performance with Flask on the free dyno (http://flask.pocoo.org/mailinglist/archive/2012/2/22/flask-o...).

See the Heroku Quickstart (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart) and Python tutorial (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python) for details.

tocomment• 14 years ago

Does Django get good performancee on the free dyno?

peter_l_downs• 14 years ago

I found this article interesting/useful because it is focused on DIY. I've been using dotcloud for hosting my flask apps, and it's very easy, but if I ever want to do it myself one day I now know how.

president• 14 years ago

Or Google App Engine, which is even easier. All you do is load your application into their GUI and click 'deploy'.

There are templates abound:

https://github.com/gumho/minimal-flask-gae-template

https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template

https://github.com/toomore-such/template-gae-with-flask

shykes2• 14 years ago

Here's how to do the same thing on dotCloud:

Step 1: sign up for a dotCloud account: (http://dotcloud.com)

Step 2: Follow these steps: http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/48/

kfk2• 14 years ago

Yesterday I spent 2 hrs to figure out why dotcloud keeps telling me that it finds no uwsgi. I managed to load another flask website with the same structure. I am now thinking numpy and pandas may be too heavy?

Anyway, a detailed log of pushes would really help a lot.

shykes2• 14 years ago

Hi there, you can definitely install numpy and panda into a dotcloud app. Simply add them to a file called requirements.txt, they should be installed automatically.

You can run 'dotcloud logs' to access detailed logs of your app's deployment and activity, that might help.

Otherwise drop us a line at support@dotcloud.com and we'll be happy to help you out!

diminish• 14 years ago

is the use of /srv as the installation location a good choice? I usually install all my apps under /var/www or /var/apps.

conradev3• 14 years ago

It's really a matter of preference.

wazoox• 14 years ago

It shouldn't make any difference, except that /var may be on a filesystem on its own (but this is becoming quite uncommon nowadays).

DHowett• 14 years ago

So might /srv.

benmanns• 14 years ago

  wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key

I don't understand why someone would go to the trouble of signing their packages, and then serve the key exclusively over HTTP.

TazeTSchnitzel• 14 years ago

"Me too!" security, where you add "security" not because you understand it and its benefits, but because other people do it.

salimmadjd2• 14 years ago

Great post...may I suggest expanding on this and install a database as well and a templating engine

espeed2• 14 years ago

The Jinja2 templating engine (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/) is installed by default with Flask.

salimmadjd2• 14 years ago

I understand...but I rather stay within python syntax as much as possible and use something like Mako.

I know you might send me to pylon, but flask's simplicity and flexibilty make it more alluring to me.

gouranga• 14 years ago

Call me lazy but I found it much easier to host on apache and mod_wsgi. Ubuntu/debian derivatives have a nice easy to manage virtual hosting system.

Quite impressed with flask though - lovely simple framework that works the same way my brain does.

zokier• 14 years ago

Why not use nginx/uwsgi/virtualenv from ubuntu repositories? In case of uwsgi, you'd get ready-made upstart and logrotate scripts, and with virtualenv you get automatic updating with the rest of packages.

conradev3• 14 years ago

I prefer using the latest stable versions and not having to depend on the Ubuntu packages to be updated.

srconstantin• 14 years ago

How much of this will work on a Mac?

conradev3• 14 years ago

If you read the 'Portability' portion on the bottom, you can run a test server with just uWSGI. For actually deploying with Mac, that would be entirely different.

Getting a Flask website up and running in Ubuntu

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