app updated to be served as a waitress backend service

README.md

@@ -1,23 +1,30 @@
-to install the dev env:
+FLowers
+-------
+
+The current code base is designed to run undert a waitress server as a backend to apache
+The app should be called as http:// ... /flowers   (so as a subfolder of the domain)
+
+to install the env:
+python3 -m venv venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+pip install flask waitress fernet pymysql pytz
 
 
-sudo pip3 install virtualenv
-virtualenv p3env
-source p3env/bin/activate
-pip install uwsgi flask fernet pymysql
+install apache and activate proxy:
+a2enmod proxy
+a2enmod proxy_http
 
+and put the following in the site...conf file:
+        ProxyPass "/flowers" "http://127.0.0.1:5012/flowers"
+        ProxyPassReverse "/flowers" "http://127.0.0.1:5012/flowers"
 
-to install kivi in the venv:
-pip install Cython==0.23
-sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev
-pip install kivy
-pip install pygame
-vi ~/.kivy/config.ini
-  change: multisamples = 0
 
 
 # as root in mysql
 create database Flowers;
 grant create,select,update,insert,grant option on Flowers.* to flower@localhost identified by '608f0b988db4a96066af7dd8870de96c';
 grant create user,reload on *.* to flower@localhost;
-flush privileges;
+flush privileges;
+
+start waitress:
+waitress-serve --threads=6 --host=127.0.0.1 --port=5012 --call flowers:create_app