Simple set up for testing and development with python 3 or higher. under windows: pip3 install flask Open cmd and navigate in to the soilcracks folder. An easy way to do this, is to navigate via explorer to ..\soilcracks and hold ctrl + shift while pressing the right button on you mouse. Left click on "open cmd here". then run: python __init__.py Go to your browser and enter: http://127.0.0.1:5000 This is the default localhost but check in the cmd output if the webapp was started under this ip.