Can't get Flask running using Passenger WSGI on Dreamhost shared hosting
dreamhost, flask, passenger, python, shared
Solution
Does answering my own question mean I'm talking to myself?
Anyway - I seem to have fixed it. Rather than find a nice helpful error message, I went through all the steps again one at a time, and it turns out it was an import error in the `passenger_wsgi.py` file. As the app is in the `mysite` subdirectory, the line:
from mysite import hello as application
should have been (and in fact, now is):
from mysite.hello import app as application
And it works. Which is nice.
Problem
I'm trying to get a Flask "hello world" application working on a Dreamhost shared server, following the instructions on their wiki, but I'm not having any luck. My Flask application is the "hello world" one from the Flask quickstart guide: ``` from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') def hello_world(): return 'Hello World!' if __name__ == '__main__': app.run() ``` Which I've got in a file called "hello.py" in a folder called mysite, as per the DH wiki instructions. My passenger_wsgi.py file is: ``` import sys, os INTERP = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'flask_env', 'bin', 'python') if sys.executable != INTERP: os.execl(INTERP, INTERP, *sys.argv) sys.path.append(os.getcwd()) from mysite import hello as application ``` I've tried running the commands in a Python console, and last import line failed until I added the `__init__.py` file to the mysite directory. When I try and access the website I just get a 500 error (and nothing in the logs unfortunately, unless they're in logs I can't get to as this is a shared server...). As this is the most basic of setups (i.e., copied and pasted from a wiki), I can't help feeling that I'm missing something really simple. Or perhaps this isn't possible on a shared server?