Flask with Plesk
I wanted to install my flask app on my plesk server. This was not as easy as I initially expected, so I am recording my steps here so that this might help someone else if necessary.
In the first step, make sure you have nginx installed. You can find instructions here.
Hosting settings
Make sure to have the following settings turned off under domain > Hosting & DNS > Hosting Settings
- PHP-Unterstützung
- CGI-Unterstützung
- Perl-Unterstützung
- CGIPython-Unterstützung
- FastCGI-Unterstützung
Apache & nginx settings
- Disable all options under nginx settings
- hit apply
- under Additional nginx directives add the following:
(maybe change the port on localhost to your desired value)
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
proxy_connect_timeout 75s;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size 5M;
}
- hit save
Installing gunicorn as a service
Connect to your server via SSH and type in the following command
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service
and paste the following into the file:
(again you may want to change the port at localhost)
[Unit]
# specifies metadata and dependencies
Description=Gunicorn instance to serve my Flask App
After=network.target
# tells the init system to only start this after the networking target has been reached
# We will give our regular user account ownership of the process since it owns all of the relevant files
[Service]
# Service specify the user and group under which our process will run.
User=username
# give group ownership to the www-data group so that Nginx can communicate easily with the Gunicorn processes.
Group=psacln
# We'll then map out the working directory and set the PATH environmental variable so that the init system knows where our the executables for the process are locat$
WorkingDirectory=/PATH/TO/FLASK-APP
Environment="PATH=/PATH/TO/venv/bin"
# We'll then specify the commanded to start the service
ExecStart=/PATH/TO/venv/bin/gunicorn -w 4 -b localhost:8000 myapp:app
# This will tell systemd what to link this service to if we enable it to start at boot. We want this service to start when the regular multi-user system is up and r$
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
hit ctrl + x and confirm both times with enter
in the next step you will need to reload daemon and enable your gunicon service with:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start gunicorn.service
sudo systemctl enable gunicorn.service