In order to enable the web server, type the following commands

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

sudo a2enmod wsgi

sudo apt-get install mariadb-client

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

cd /var/www/

We want 2 instance of FlaskApp sudo mkdir FlaskApp

cd FlaskApp

sudo mkdir FlaskApp

cd FlaskApp

Create a directory with public informations. People can access to those file by typing 10.0.0.199:8000/static sudo mkdir static

Create a directory to store private data sudo mkdir templates

Create a file with the main website informations sudo nano -c -l __init__.py

sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

sudo pip install virtualenv

WARNING, we should be on the correct directory for the next command, which is /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/ sudo virtualenv venv

Go into the virtual environment

First of all, make sure you are in the directory with the virtual environment is installed and then, type the following command. For the exemple here, you should be on the /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/ source venv/bin/activate

After that, you should see that your root changed for (venv) pi@raspberrypi:

Once in the virtual environment, we want to install Flask like so sudo pip install Flask

To get out of the virtual environment, type the following command desactivate

Configure apache server

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/FlaskApp.conf

To activate those configurations, type the following commands

sudo a2ensite FlaskApp

systemctl apache2 reload

cd /var/www/FlaskApp

sudo nano flaskapp.wsgi In this file, the secret key is setup

service apache2 restart

sudo pip install numpy

sudo python3 -m pip install opencv-python