xieyuqian/phoenix-flower

a hacker news like web app built up by using Flask, SQLAlchemy etc technologies.

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?

Yep, it's just launched on DigitalOcean. Try it via http://42bang.com

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