You're reading from Mastering Flask Web and API Development Build and deploy production-ready Flask apps seamlessly across web, APIs, and mobile platforms

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633227

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Flask

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Sherwin John C. Tragura

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning the Flask 3.x Framework

2. Chapter 1: A Deep Dive into the Flask Framework FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Adding Advanced Core Features

4. Chapter 3: Creating REST Web Services

5. Chapter 4: Utilizing Flask Extensions

6. Part 2:Building Advanced Flask 3.x Applications

7. Chapter 5: Building Asynchronous Transactions

8. Chapter 6: Developing Computational and Scientific Applications

9. Chapter 7: Using Non-Relational Data Storage

10. Chapter 8: Building Workflows with Flask

11. Chapter 9: Securing Flask Applications

12. Part 3:Testing, Deploying, and Building Enterprise-Grade Applications

13. Chapter 10: Creating Test Cases for Flask

14. Chapter 11: Deploying Flask Applications

15. Chapter 12: Integrating Flask with Other Tools and Frameworks

16. Index

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Deploying the application on the Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server is an open source server under the Apache projects that can run on Windows and UNIX-based platforms to provide an efficient, simple, and flexible HTTP server for various applications.

Before anything else, download the latest server from https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and unzip the file to the production server’s installation directory. Then, download the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist, install it, and run the server through the httpd.exe file of its /bin folder.

After the installation, follow these steps to deploy our application to the Apache HTTP Server:

Build your Flask application, as we did with our Online Grocery application, run it using the built-in WSGI server, and refine the components using pytest testing.
Next, install the mod_wsgi module, which enables the Apache HTTP Server’...