flask-rest-api

RESTful API Server using flask.

Run the server on EC2 (First time)

1. Initiate an EC2 instance with opening port 80
2. Install Docker on the instance: yum update && yum install docker
3. Make sure the docker is running: sudo service docker start
4. Pull the necessary docker image: sudo docker pull tiangolo/uwsgi-nginx-flask
5. Clone this repo on the instance: sudo yum install git then git clone <this repo url>
6. cd to the directory where Dockerfile is located
7. sh start.sh

When the server scripts are updated

1. cd to the repo folder
2. sh stop.sh
3. git pull
4. Files in storage/ folder (listed in .gitignore) need to be uploaded manually with scp -i /path/to/pem/file/XXX.pem /path/to/file/to/upload/YYY.py [email protected]:/home/ec2-user/ZZZ
5. sh start.sh