By Mingjun Wang
I followed the link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-flask-application-on-an-ubuntu-vps
created my first webpage in flask using the following code:
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")
def hello():
return "Hello, I love Digital Ocean!"
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
But I could not see this page when type droplet ID address in browser. It only showed the directory structure.
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Hello,
You need to make sure that you have the wsgi apache module enabled with this command:
sudo a2enmod wsgi
Also you need to have a similar Apache Vhost:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAdmin admin@mywebsite.com
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/FlaskApp/flaskapp.wsgi
<Directory /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /static /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/static
<Directory /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/static/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Without the extra rules, your script would not be executed.
Regards, Bobby
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