Source code and templates for the website http://www.doctypehtml5.in/. To run this as a test server, simply use:
python website.py
You will need the Flask framework and some extensions. To install:
easy_install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-WTF Flask-Mail simplejson pytz Markdown
Installing into a virtualenv
is strongly recommended.
BSD and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. See LICENSE.txt
.
The website is currently hosted at Dreamhost using the Passenger WSGI gateway. To reproduce this setup, create a domain using the Dreamhost panel, then setup the Python environment:
mkdir -p ~/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages PYTHONPATH=~/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages easy_install --prefix ~/python virtualenv PYTHONPATH=~/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages bin/virtualenv ~/python/env --no-site-packages source ~/python/env/bin/activate easy_install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-WTF Flask-Mail simplejson pytz mysql-python greatape Markdown
This creates a virtualenv
in ~/python/env
, activates it, then installs
Flask and extensions in the virtualenv
. Dreamhost does not have
virtualenv
pre-installed, so it is necessary to install it first.
Dreamhost does not support mod_wsgi
either, which would have made all this
much simpler.
If your site is located at (for example) ~/doctypehtml5.in
, install the
source files there. Do not install in the public
sub-folder. Dreamhost will
automatically pick up passenger_wsgi.py
and start serving the site.
To refresh after updating, you must edit the site via the control panel and click 'Save' again.
The website is currently a single HTML page, so why use a framework at all? Because we intend to expand it. We might as well get a good foundation in place right at the beginning. Flask is lightweight and a joy to work with.