phoenix-flower

introduction

A hacker news like web app built up by using Python Web Framework Flask, SQLAlchemy, Mysql/SQLite, Cron etc technologies.

Wanna see a Demo of this project?

sorry, not at this moment. will release soon when web server is ready.

How to deploy on my own env?

recommend to install this app on your LEMP server.

1. mysql php nginx install: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-12-04

2. phpmyadmin nginx https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-phpmyadmin-on-a-lemp-server/

3. install pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip

4. install virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

5. create the virtualenv for phoenixflower

virtualenv phoenixflower

6. active your virtual env by

source phoenixflower/bin/activate

7. install dev env in order to make the mysql dev installation smoothly

 sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev

8. install the requirements for this app

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/catsky/phoenix-flower.git
cd phoenix-flower
pip install -r requirements.txt

9. rename config.back.py to config.py, and fullfill the info according to your settings.

10. create a db called "phoenixflower" using phpmyadmin or something else

11. start this app by running

python index.py

12. access this app via http://localhost:5000
    ENJOY! :)

*13. OR DEPLOY ON THE PRODUCTION ENV recommend to use nginx and uwsgi, follow the instruction below

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-uwsgi-on-ubuntu-12-10 https://gist.github.com/mplewis/6076082

 uwsgi --socket 127.0.0.1:3031 --module index  --callable app --virtualenv /root/phoenixflower/ --daemonize=/var/log/uwsgi/phoenixflower.log

##License MIT