api-mreport

flask api for mreport

Prerequis

$ sudo apt-get install python3-venv

Create api user

$ sudo adduser mreport

Install

# clone the repository
$ cd /home/mreport
$ git clone https://github.com/spelhate/api-mreport.git
$ cd api-mreport

Create a virtualenv and activate it

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate

Install Flask and dependencies

$ pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org -r requirements.txt

Configure

Edit config.py and set SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI

Run

$ export FLASK_APP=app
$ flask run

Deploy with apache and gunicorn

In apache conf

ProxyPreserveHost on
<Location "/api">
	 Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
	 Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization"
         ProxyPass "http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/"
	 ProxyPassReverse "http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/"
</Location>

logs

$ mkdir /var/log/api-mreport
$ sudo chown mreport /var/log/api-mreport

Test gunicorn

$ gunicorn -c gunicorn.conf -b 0.0.0.0:5000 app:app

Create a .service file for the api. (/etc/systemd/system/api-mreport.service):

[Unit]
Description=api-mreport
After=network.target

[Service]
User=mreport
Restart=on-failure
WorkingDirectory=/home/mreport/api-mreport/
ExecStart=/home/mreport/api-mreport/venv/bin/gunicorn -c /home/mreport/api-mreport/gunicorn.conf -b 0.0.0.0:5000 app:app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable and start the service

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable api-mreport
$ systemctl start api-mreport