Steps to Install & Configure Flask on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Flask is an open source micro web-based python framework. It helps users to build secure, scalable and maintainable web applications. It provides tools, libraries and technologies that allow to build a application.

Prerequisites:

  • Ubuntu system with Sudo privileges.

There are some steps to setup Flask on Ubuntu:

Step 1: Update the System.

apt-get update

Step 2: No need to install python in Ubuntu 20.04.So Check python version.

python3 -V

  • Here is the command output.

root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu# python3 -V
Python 3.8.10

  • Install the required packages.

apt install build-essential python3-pip libffi-dev python3-dev python3-setuptools libssl-dev
apt install python3-venv

Step 3: Now, Setup a Environment.

  • Create a directory & navigate into it.

mkdir test_flask_app
cd test_flask_app

  • Create a environment.

python3 -m venv venv

  • To start the created environment.

source venv/bin/activate

  • Here is the command output.

root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu# mkdir test_flask_app
root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu# cd test_flask_app
root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app# python3 -m venv venv
root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app# source venv/bin/activate
(venv) root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app#

Step 4: Install Flask using pip3 on system.

pip3 install flask

  • Here is the command output.

(venv) root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app# pip3 install flask
Collecting flask
Downloading Flask-2.0.2-py3-none-any.whl (95 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 95 kB 5.6 MB/s
Collecting click>=7.1.2
Downloading click-8.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (97 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 97 kB 10.3 MB/s
Collecting Jinja2>=3.0
Downloading Jinja2-3.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (133 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 133 kB 68.3 MB/s
Collecting Werkzeug>=2.0
Downloading Werkzeug-2.0.2-py3-none-any.whl (288 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 288 kB 67.1 MB/s
Collecting itsdangerous>=2.0
Downloading itsdangerous-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (18 kB)
Collecting MarkupSafe>=2.0
Downloading MarkupSafe-2.0.1-cp38-cp38-manylinux2010_x86_64.whl (30 kB)
Installing collected packages: click, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, Werkzeug, itsdangerous, flask
Successfully installed Jinja2-3.0.3 MarkupSafe-2.0.1 Werkzeug-2.0.2 click-8.0.3 flask-2.0.2 itsdangerous-2.0.1
(venv) root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app#

  • Check flask version.

flask --version
or
python -m flask --version

  • Here is the command output.

(venv) root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app# flask --version
Python 3.8.10
Flask 2.0.2
Werkzeug 2.0.2

Step 5: Create a Minimal Application.

  • Create a file.

example.py

  • Add the following line:

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
return 'Hello World!'
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host='0.0.0.0')

  • Open the following port number in UFW firewall.

ufw allow 5000

  • Here is the command output.

(venv) root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app# ufw allow 5000
Rules updated
Rules updated (v6)

  • Run the created file.

python example.py

  • Here is the command output.

(venv) root@ip-172-31-31-201:/home/ubuntu/test_flask_app# python example.py
* Serving Flask app 'example' (lazy loading)
* Environment: production
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
Use a production WSGI server instead.
* Debug mode: off
* Running on all addresses.
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
* Running on http://172.31.31.201:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
132.154.114.192 - - [02/Feb/2022 08:12:25] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
132.154.114.192 - - [02/Feb/2022 08:12:28] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Step 6: Open the Application using URL.

http://server-ip:5000

  • Here is the output.

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