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Another app server how-to, this time for an Nginx-backed, REST App server, running flask-socketio for adding real-time as well as HTTP end-points.  This is a useful feature, to be able to take advantage of all the socketio libs popping up for Javascript, Swift, C++ and Java, and therefore iOS and Android.

Here’s the steps to install and configure, Nginx, Python, Flask-SocketIO, and get a very basic REST API up and testable.  This post will not cover hardening or securing a server, see the previous post and cherry-pick the security commands that apply for this setup as well.  Also, this is Ubuntu 14.04 again, but should be adaptable.

 

sudo su # or prefix all with sudo
# INSTALL NGINX LATEST STABLE RELEASE
apt-get install python-software-properties software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx nginx-doc
cd /usr/local/src/
git clone https://github.com/perusio/nginx_ensite.git
cd nginx_ensite
make install
# INSTALL MYSQL - THIS SETUP NEEDS THIS BUT SUBSTITUTE MONGO/REDIS/RABBITMQ/POSTGRESQL
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client # install DB, make sure to set and store mysql root password
mysql_install_db # initial mysql setup
mysql_secure_installation # secures mysql install; prompted for mysql root password
# SETUP FLASH-SOCKETIO
apt-get install python-dev python-pip ssl-cert openssl-blacklist
pip install flask-socketio
pip install eventlet # http://eventlet.net/
pip install virtualenv
pip install gunicorn
# TODO: finish