What is this?

The web server code and webpage templates for my blog.

Why?

My old system, though neat in its own right, especially for something I came up with around 2019/2020 when I had little to no experience in such things, had many drawbacks, and overall just didn't seem to be made the way real web applications are made. Also I can show this to a job recruiter. :)

Where's the data?

See the sister project blog-posts under this same user account (not linked for... reasons).

Running This App

For the best experience please pass --ini default.ini to uwsgi. You may overwrite values at your discretion, but the logging it setup in a specific way, so that the Python app can determine which posts are accessed the most.

Needed Libraries

Package names according to PyPI:

• Markdown
• mysqlclient
• dotenv
• Flask
• pillow

Environment Variables

Create a .env file, or manually set the following environment variables:

• MYSQL_USER: authenticating username
• MYSQL_PASSWORD: authenticating password
• MYSQL_DATABASE: the database on localhost to use
• USE_CSP: either true or false depending on whether you want to enable Content Security Policy

Production vs Testing?

My test environment isn't too dissimilar from the real one, I just use 'blog' for all 3 .env variables. The main difference is how I run it (technically). On my Arch laptop I run:

uwsgi --plugin python --http :5000 --wsgi-file app.py

But on my server I have to say python3, and also the version seems different so the args change a bit to http-socket. Additionally I add --master:

uwsgi --plugin python3 --http-socket :5000 --wsgi-file --master app.py