Deploy Flask on Godaddy Linux share hosting with cPanel
1testyourpythonenvironment,beattentionthatputyourpythoncodeondocumentrootfoldorsubfoldercgi-bin,otherwiseyourcodeisnotabletoaccessedthroughcgi.
hereissampleoftestingpythoncode:
#!/usr/bin/python #hello.py print "Content-Type: text/html" # HTML is following print print "<html><header><title>Test CGI Python</title></header><body>Hello CGI!</body></html>"
setprivilegeto755!!!!!!!(dontknowwhy)
Meanwhileaddahandlerforextension.pythroughcPanelorchangehello.pytohello.cgi
runitthrough:http://yourdomain.com/hello.pyorhello.cgi
2installvirtualenvpipandcreateyourownpythonenvironmentandinstallFlaskthroughpip.
3createcgiapplicationunderfolderofcgi-bin:
#!/yourpythonpath/python #myapp.py from wsgiref.handlers import CGIHandler from yourapplication import app CGIHandler().run(app)
4createmyappfolderunderdocumentroot,create.htaccessinsideofmyapp:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home/yourloginname/public_html/cgi-bin/myapp.py/$1 [L]Becarefulthatalthoughthereisalinkwwwpointtopublic_htmlfolder,butitdoesnotworkifyouputherewww.
testlink:http://yourdomain.com/myapp/
reference:http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/cgi/
RegardingFastCGIonGodaddysharedhost:
IhavesuccessfullyconfigFlashwithFastCGIthroughflup,butitdoesnotmakesense.SincethesocketwillbeclosedafteraHTTPaccess,apachecreatesanewprocesstodealwithanewrequest.
Letslookintoflupsourcecode:
sock = socket.fromfd(FCGI_LISTENSOCK_FILENO, socket.AF_INET,
socket.SOCK_STREAM)
try:
sock.getpeername()
except socket.error, e:
if e[0] == errno.ENOTSOCK:
# Not a socket, assume CGI context.
isFCGI = False
elif e[0] != errno.ENOTCONN:
raisesock.getpeername()willthrowaexception,whichindicatethatsocketdoesnotexist,thereisnodifferentbetweenCGIandFastCGIoninitialisingofpythonapp.
IalsogotproofonGodaddysupportwebsite:
https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/20/does-your-cgi-service-support-socket-connections-or-socket-modules