Setup using python apps in nginx

This is a quick summary how to run Python apps on a nginx webserver using Flask and uwsgi on Ubuntu 14.04.

Prerequisites

You should already have nginx running on your server. Additionally you need to install these packages:

apt-get install python-virtualenv uwsgi-plugin-python3

Application environment

For better separation of single services each app should run in its own Python environment. This allows to use different Python versions and different packages being installed for each app. Create a new Python environment in the folder myApp/env.

mkdir myApp
cd myApp
virtualenv -p python3 env

Once that is done you can install Flask and all other packages your app is going to use into that environment.

env/bin/activate
pip install flask
deactivate

Copy your application files to the myApp folder.

Configure uwsgi

We'll start uwsgi by using an ini configuration file at myApp/myApp.ini

[uwsgi]
module = %n
callable = app
chdir = %d
virtualenv = %d/env
plugin = python34

master = true
processes = 1
threads = 2

uid = www-data
gid = www-data
socket = /tmp/uwsgi.%n.sock
chown-socket = www-data:www-data
chmod-socket = 660
vacuum = true
die-on-term = true
harakiri = 120

You can try starting your application by calling uwsgi --ini myApp/myApp.ini

In order to start it automatically a configuration file for upstart needs to be placed at /etc/init/myApp.conf

description "My uwsgi application"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]

respawn

exec uwsgi --ini myApp/myApp.ini

To start it now type start myApp.

Configure nginx

Now that your Python app is running and accessible through uwsgi it needs to be assinged a URL in the webserver. A new location has to be configured inside the nginx configuration like this

location /myapp {
    include uwsgi_params;
    uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi.myApp.sock;
}

This will place your application at your-server.com/myapp.

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