Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Updated PythonAnywhere virtualenv instructions #65

Open
wants to merge 2 commits into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Updated PythonAnywhere virtualenv instructions #65

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
4d6de47
Updated to reflect current virtualenv setup instructions on PythonAny…
gpjt Dec 5, 2024
b12e2c5
Merge pull request #1 from gpjt/gpjt-update-virtualenv-instructions
gpjt Dec 5, 2024
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
15 changes: 5 additions & 10 deletions README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -203,14 +203,7 @@ Deploying to Heroku
8. Click the "Add a new web app" link on the left; by default this will create an app at your-username.pythonanywhere.com, though if you've signed up for a paid "Web Developer" account you can also specify your own domain name here. Once you've decided on the location of the app, click the "Next" button.
9. On the next page, click the "Flask" option, and on the next page just keep the default settings and click "Next" again.
Once the web app has been created (it'll take 20 seconds or so), you'll see a link near the top of the page, under the "Reload web app" button, saying "It is configured via a WSGI file stored at..." and a filename. Click this, and you get to a page with a text editor.
10. Put the following lines of code at the start of the WSGI file (changing "your-username" appropriately)

```
activate_this = '/home/your-username/flask-boilerplate/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
```

11. Then update the following lines of code:
10. Then update the following lines of code:

from

Expand All @@ -236,8 +229,10 @@ Once the web app has been created (it'll take 20 seconds or so), you'll see a li
from app import app as application
```

12. Save the file.
13. Go to the website http://your-username.pythonanywhere.com/ (or your own domain if you specified a different one earlier), and you should see something like this - [http://www.flaskboilerplate.com/](http://www.flaskboilerplate.com/).
11. Save the file.
12. Back on the Web tab, scroll down to the "Virtualenv" section, and click on the "Enter path to a virtualenv, if required" link. In the input that pops up, enter `/home/your-username/flask-boilerplate/venv` (changing "your-username" appropriately) and hit return.
13. Click the green "Reload" button at the top of the page.
14. Go to the website http://your-username.pythonanywhere.com/ (or your own domain if you specified a different one earlier), and you should see something like this - [http://www.flaskboilerplate.com/](http://www.flaskboilerplate.com/).

*Now you're ready to start developing!*

Expand Down