A skeleton Flask, CherryPy, MongoDB app.

• Flask
• CherryPy WSGI Server (for production)

Make sure these are installed:

• Flask easy_install flask

• CherryPy easy_install cherrypy

• Run the install script python install.py and choose the port the app will run at

• Configure MongoDB database settings in config.py

The app can be run through the Werkzeug WSGI server that comes with Flask. To run it, execute python flask_app.py. Provided you have set DEBUG = True in your config.py file, this option will give you an interactive debugger and your app will be reloaded if changes to source files are detected.

1. Run ./start_server.sh. This will launch cherryd with settings coming from cherrypy.conf that uses an 'in-between' script create_flask_app.py to attach the Flask Object to the server
2. A file, cherrypy.pid will be created that has the id of the process running
3. Calling ./stop_server.sh will read the .pid file and kill the process waiting for child threads to terminate