Setup AQgraph in a development environment on Ubuntu

The easiest way is to setup a development environment is to install PyCharm, add Flask and Flask-cached to your development environment in 'preferences', and switch to the FileSystemCache by uncommenting the appropriate line in aq.py.

Alternatively...

Install and configure apache, memcached and mod-wsgi-py3 (config not covered here). This is a brief overview. Ensure you secure and configure your installation correctly in production.

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3
sudo apt-get install memcached

Make a directory to serve from

mkdir /var/www/graphs

Install pip and setup virtualenv

sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
alias pip=pip3
source ~/.bashrc
pip install virtualenv

Activate the virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

Install the pre-reqs into your virtual environment

pip install Flask
pip install Flask-cached
pip install python-memcached

Deactivate the virtual environment

deactivate

Grab the code

git clone https://github.com/ConnectedHumber/AQgraph.git

You need a wsgi file. Start with something like this. Put it here /var/www/graphs/graphs.wsgi

#!/usr/bin/python
activate_this = '/var/www/graphs/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
with open(activate_this) as file_:
    exec(file_.read(), dict(__file__=activate_this))

import sys
import logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)
sys.path.insert(0,"/var/www/graphs/AQgraph")

from aq import app as application

Finally, setup a vhost in apache with the WSGIScriptAlias directive pointing at /var/www/graphs/graphs.wsgi

Finally

systemctl restart apache2

When you want to pull the latest changes just cd to AQgraph and run

git pull