Install and configure Flask phpmyadmin and Apache

First install apache with mysql
-sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-client mysql-server

Setup mysql

-sudo mysql_secure_installation
-sudo mysql -u root -p

Installing mysql python libary
-sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

Creating a Database user
-sudo mysql -u root -p

-GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mydb.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
#username and password cant be anything

Installing PHPMYADMIN
-sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Configuring Apache server
-sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

#include this line
-Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

-sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Open this on a web browser
-localhost/phpmyadmin​

Install WSGI
-sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi (for python2)
-sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 (for python3)

Enabled WSGI
-sudo a2enmod wsgi

Set up Flask environment
Go to the directory
-cd /var/www/

Make Flask environment directory
-mkdir FlaskApp

Move into directory
-cd FlaskApp

Make another directory
-mkdir FlaskApp

#/to/flask/directory/FlaskApp/FlaskApp
Move into directory
-cd FlaskApp/

Make two directories, static
mkdir static mkdir templates

Create first Flask App:
sudo nano init.py

#! /bin/usr/python from flask import Flask

app = Flask(name)

@app.route('/') def homepage(): return "Hello World"

if name == "main": app.run()

Press control+x to save it, yes, enter

Proceed installing flask. Update and upgrade first
-apt-get update -apt-get upgrade

Install pip first before installing flask
-apt-get install python-pip

Install virtual environment
-pip install virtualenv

Now to set up the virtualenv directory
-sudo virtualenv venv

Activate the virtual environment
-source venv/bin/activate

Now install Flask within virtual environment
-pip install Flask

Testing pyhton code
-python init.py #for pyhton2
-python3 init.py #for pyhton3

Hit control+c to out form application

Stop virtual environment
-deactivate

Setup Flask configuration file
-nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/FlaskApp.conf

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName yourdomain.com(ipaddress) ServerAdmin [email protected] WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/FlaskApp/flaskapp.wsgi <Directory /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/> Order allow,deny Allow from all Alias /static /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/static <Directory /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/static/> Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Run
-sudo a2ensite FlaskApp
-service apache2 reload

Configure WSGI file
-cd /var/www/FlaskApp

nano flaskapp.wsgi
-copy paste this code

#!/usr/bin/python

'''add this code if using virtual environment (for python2)
activate_this = '/var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
execfile(activate_this, dict(file=activate_this))
'''

'''add this code if using virtual environment (for python3)
activate_this = '/var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
with open(activate_this) as file_:
exec(file_.read(), dict(file=activate_this))
'''

import sys import logging logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr) sys.path.insert(0,"/var/www/FlaskApp/")

from FlaskApp import app as application application.secret_key = "abc1234 (can be anything)"

Save and exit

Restart apache
-service apache2 restart

Goto web browser enter ip address