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Merge pull request #427 from kevinburke/fix-existing-tutorial

add heroku/deploy options to quickstart, and add clearer links in tutorial setup
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Ron DuPlain 13 years ago
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docs/quickstart.rst

@ -826,3 +826,19 @@ can do it like this::
from werkzeug.contrib.fixers import LighttpdCGIRootFix
app.wsgi_app = LighttpdCGIRootFix(app.wsgi_app)
Deploying to a Web Server
-------------------------
If you want to make your Flask app available to the Internet at large, `Heroku
<http://www.heroku.com>`_ is very easy to set up and will run small Flask
applications for free. `Check out their tutorial on how to deploy Flask apps on
their service <http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python>`_.
There are a number of other websites that will host your Flask app and make it
easy for you to do so.
- `Deploying Flask on ep.io <https://www.ep.io/docs/quickstart/flask/>`_
- `Deploying Flask on Webfaction <http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/65/>`_
- `Deploying Flask on Google App Engine <https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template>`_
- `Sharing your Localhost Server with Localtunnel <http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/89/>`_

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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ into the module which we will be doing here. However a cleaner solution
would be to create a separate `.ini` or `.py` file and load that or import
the values from there.
::
In `flaskr.py`::
# all the imports
import sqlite3
@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ the values from there.
PASSWORD = 'default'
Next we can create our actual application and initialize it with the
config from the same file::
config from the same file, in `flaskr.py`::
# create our little application :)
app = Flask(__name__)
@ -37,21 +37,21 @@ string it will import it) and then look for all uppercase variables
defined there. In our case, the configuration we just wrote a few lines
of code above. You can also move that into a separate file.
It is also a good idea to be able to load a configuration from a
configurable file. This is what :meth:`~flask.Config.from_envvar` can
do::
Usually, it is a good idea to load a configuration from a configurable
file. This is what :meth:`~flask.Config.from_envvar` can do, replacing the
:meth:`~flask.Config.from_object` line above::
app.config.from_envvar('FLASKR_SETTINGS', silent=True)
That way someone can set an environment variable called
:envvar:`FLASKR_SETTINGS` to specify a config file to be loaded which will
then override the default values. The silent switch just tells Flask to
not complain if no such environment key is set.
:envvar:`FLASKR_SETTINGS` to specify a config file to be loaded which will then
override the default values. The silent switch just tells Flask to not complain
if no such environment key is set.
The `secret_key` is needed to keep the client-side sessions secure.
Choose that key wisely and as hard to guess and complex as possible. The
debug flag enables or disables the interactive debugger. Never leave
debug mode activated in a production system because it will allow users to
debug flag enables or disables the interactive debugger. *Never leave
debug mode activated in a production system*, because it will allow users to
execute code on the server!
We also add a method to easily connect to the database specified. That

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