Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Follow these steps to deploy a Flask application using Apache:

1. We need to create some more files, the first one being app.wsgi. This loads our application as a WSGI application:

activate_this = '<Path to virtualenv>/bin/activate_this.py' 
exec(open(activate_this).read(), dict(__file__=activate_this)) 
 
from my_app import app as application 
import sys, logging 
logging.basicConfig(stream = sys.stderr) 

Since we perform all our installations inside virtualenv, we need to activate the environment before our application is loaded. In the case of system-wide installations, the first two statements aren't needed. Then, we need to import our app object as application, which is used as the application that's being served. The last two ...