How To Serve Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

In this guide, you will build a simple Python application using the Flask microframework. The bulk of this article is about setting up the uWSGI application server launching the application, and configuring Nginx to act as a front-end reverse proxy. Choose your server’s operating system below to get started.

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