Added notes on setting up on EC2

Author: Ubuntu

Notes.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+To set up a production WSGI server: https://towardsdatascience.com/deploying-flask-with-gunicorn-3-9eaacd0f6eea
+Application Server vs. Web Server
+Seems that an application server processes dynamic content, and a web server serves up static content. This can be done very quickly since the web server is a worker model.
+If you want authentication on the static files -> https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-subrequest-authentication/
+
+Great Read on setting up flask/nginx on EC2 -> https://medium.com/@varunchitale/a-simple-python-api-using-flask-with-nginx-setup-on-aws-ec2-4a380ceaf006

api.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import timeit
 
 app = flask.Flask(__name__)
-app.config["DEBUG"] = True
+app.config["DEBUG"] = False
 
 # https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-apis-with-python-and-flask
 # Add weather data for our catalog
@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@ def upload_file():
     return "File Saved"
 
 
-app.run()
+app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=5000)

env/bin/activate

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ deactivate () {
     fi
 
     unset VIRTUAL_ENV
-    if [ ! "$1" = "nondestructive" ] ; then
+    if [ ! "${1:-}" = "nondestructive" ] ; then
     # Self destruct!
         unset -f deactivate
     fi
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ deactivate () {
 # unset irrelevant variables
 deactivate nondestructive
 
-VIRTUAL_ENV="/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env"
+VIRTUAL_ENV="/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env"
 export VIRTUAL_ENV
 
 _OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH="$PATH"

env/bin/activate.csh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ alias deactivate 'test $?_OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH != 0 && setenv PATH "$_OLD_VIRTUAL_PA
 # Unset irrelevant variables.
 deactivate nondestructive
 
-setenv VIRTUAL_ENV "/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env"
+setenv VIRTUAL_ENV "/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env"
 
 set _OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH="$PATH"
 setenv PATH "$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"

env/bin/activate.fish

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ end
 # unset irrelevant variables
 deactivate nondestructive
 
-set -gx VIRTUAL_ENV "/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env"
+set -gx VIRTUAL_ENV "/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env"
 
 set -gx _OLD_VIRTUAL_PATH $PATH
 set -gx PATH "$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin" $PATH
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ if test -z "$VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT"
         set -l old_status $status
 
         # Prompt override?
-        if test -n "(env) "            
+        if test -n "(env) "
             printf "%s%s" "(env) " (set_color normal)
         else
             # ...Otherwise, prepend env

env/bin/easy_install

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#!/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
-
+#!/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import re
 import sys
-
 from setuptools.command.easy_install import main
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
+    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
     sys.exit(main())

env/bin/easy_install-3.6

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#!/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
-
+#!/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import re
 import sys
-
 from flask.cli import main
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
+    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
     sys.exit(main())

env/bin/flask

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#!/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
-
+#!/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import re
 import sys
-
-from pip import main
-
+from pip._internal.cli.main import main
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
+    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
     sys.exit(main())

env/bin/pip

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#!/home/phillip/Documents/Personal_Projects/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
-
+#!/home/ubuntu/secure-python-flask-api/env/bin/python3
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import re
 import sys
-
-from pip import main
-
+from pip._internal.cli.main import main
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
+    sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
     sys.exit(main())