-create an account into www.pythonanywhere.com
-click on the Web menu
-click on the "add a new web app" button.
-select Flask
-select last python version
The route of your app will be something like that: /home/your_user/mysite/flask_app.py
you can change it but you will do it later
-click finish
if you open a browser with the url http://your-user-account.pythoneverywhere.com
it'll show you
"hello from flask"
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-click on the Console menu
-click on the Bash link
-clone your app from github
-go into the folder of your app and install your libraries like thar:
pip install -r requirements.txt
(previously you had to generate the requirements.txt file like that:
pip freeze>requirements.txt----------------------
-go to Web Menu
-inthe Code section edit
source code : /home/your-user-account/your-app
and click/ on WSGI configuration file: /var/www/your-user-account_pythonanywhere_com_wsfi.py
edit:
# add your project directory to the sys.path
project_home = '/home/your-user-account/your-app'
if project_home not in sys.path:
sys.path = [project_home] + sys.path
# import flask app but need to call it "application" for WSGI to work
from app import app as application
[
note:
the first "app" is the name of your main file ( e.g app.py or run.py)
the second "app" is the name of the variable inside your main file
app = Flask(__name__)
]
click on the Save Button
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-Click on to The Web menu
-click on the reload button
-refresh your browser and that's it!
note: you can force https on your URL, clicking on the Force HTTPS option. (after that, you must click on the reload button)
