mattparrilla / webfaction-flask

A barebones Flask project for use on Webfaction

#Flask Project Template For Webfaction Hosting Environment This repository is meant to provide a quick way to spin up Flask applications on Webfaction and is based off of Aaron Presley's blog post. I'll rely heavily on that post for instructions and will only provide instruction where I deviate from his recipe.

The project structure I've employed here is slighly different, but similar enough that if you get stuck along the way, you should refer to his original blog post which is an excellent synthesis of a few snippets floating around out there.

Steps

1. Create a new application on Webfaction

2. Setup your application as a website

3. Edit apache2/conf/httpd.conf (see Step 3 of post)

4. Clone project

   1. cd ~/webapps/project_name
   2. git clone <YOUR PROJECT'S CLONE URL> app

5. Instantiate virtual environment and install dependencies

   1. cd ~/webapps/project_name/app/
   2. virtualenv venv
   3. source venv/bin/activate
   4. pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Create htdocs/index.py (slightly modified from Step 6)

    import sys
   
    # Active your Virtual Environment, which I'm assuming you've already setup
    activate_this='/home/username/webapps/application_name/app/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
    execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
   
    # Appending our Flask project files
    sys.path.append('/home/username/webapps/application_name/app')
   
    # Launching our app
    from main import app as application
   

7. Point your browser to your new webfaction website!

_config.py

To avoid exposing sensitive config data, I keep a copy of my current config file (with the sensitive data removed) in _config.py