Source code and templates for the website http://www.doctypehtml5.in/. To run this as a test server, simply use:

python website.py

You will need the Flask framework and some extensions. To install:

easy_install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-WTF Flask-Mail simplejson pytz Markdown pygooglechart

Installing into a virtualenv is strongly recommended.

BSD and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. See LICENSE.txt.

The website is currently hosted at Dreamhost using the Passenger WSGI gateway. To reproduce this setup, create a domain using the Dreamhost panel, then setup the Python environment:

mkdir -p ~/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages
PYTHONPATH=~/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages easy_install --prefix ~/python virtualenv
PYTHONPATH=~/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages bin/virtualenv ~/python/env --no-site-packages
source ~/python/env/bin/activate
easy_install Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy Flask-WTF Flask-Mail simplejson pytz mysql-python greatape Markdown pygooglechart

This creates a virtualenv in ~/python/env, activates it, then installs Flask and extensions in the virtualenv. Dreamhost does not have virtualenv pre-installed, so it is necessary to install it first. Dreamhost does not support mod_wsgi either, which would have made all this much simpler.

If your site is located at (for example) ~/doctypehtml5.in, install the source files there. Do not install in the public sub-folder. Dreamhost will automatically pick up passenger_wsgi.py and start serving the site.

To refresh after updating, you must edit the site via the control panel and click 'Save' again.

The website is currently a single HTML page, so why use a framework at all? Because we intend to expand it. We might as well get a good foundation in place right at the beginning. Flask is lightweight and a joy to work with.