Running Flask Demos

The VM comes with working Flask demos from the exercises of the course “Python and Flask Bootcamp: Create Websites using Flask” by Jose Portilla on Udemy

All the demos are available under -

home/coder/django-flask-suit/flask-example-projects/

Follow below steps to run demos:

• First, go to the demo directory, for example

  cd /home/coder/django-flask-suit/flask-example-projects/Flask-Bootcamp-master/02-Flask-Basics

• Then switch to the super user. This is required to run Flask server on port 80

  sudo su

• Then set the FLASK_APP environment variable to the app file

  export FLASK_APP=06-Routing-Exercise-Solution.py

• Then start the flask server by running below command

  flask run -h 0.0.0.0 -p 80

• After running the command, open http://publicip and you should see the demo page displayed