[Flask] Need help deploying using mod_wsgi (Apache)

[King Kong]

nitori, does that mean that I must first convert my app into a package with
a __init__.py file?

I am now hitting a 403 Forbidden (You don't have permission to access /api
on this server.)  Log shows: [authz_core:error] [pid 6817:tid 3021182000]
[client 220.xxx.xxx.xxx:56401] AH01630: client denied by server
configuration: /Z/flask/app.wsgi. (I think my app.wsgi file hasn't got the
chance to run yet.)

My /Z/flask folder is pretty liberal with rights:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi  302 Feb  5 18:04 app.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi   39 Feb 10 13:42 app.wsgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi   37 Feb  6 15:41 index.py
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Feb  5 17:56 views

I am confused over the user/group in the config file.  Read the
documentation at
https://code.google.com/archive/p/modwsgi/wikis/ConfigurationDirectives.wiki
but couldn't figure out what it means regarding the user parameter.

 My /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf contains:

        WSGIDaemonProcess app user=pi group=pi threads=5
        WSGIScriptAlias /api /Z/flask/app.wsgi

        #Alias /api /Z/flask/
        <Directory /Z/flask >
                WSGIProcessGroup app
                WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
                WSGIScriptReloading On
                Addhandler wsgi-script .py
        </Directory>

Am I using the correct user/group values?  What is causing the access error?

Thanks.




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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:33:01 +0100
> From: Lars Peter S?ndergaard <lps at chireiden.net>
> To: flask at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Flask] Fwd: Need help deploying using mod_wsgi (Apache)
> Message-ID: <20160207113301.5d7a89f6 at ikarus.ikarus>
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> On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 23:58:30 +0800 King Kong <kingkong88 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to deploy a simple test app on a Raspberry Pi by
> > following the instructions at
> > http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/deploying/mod_wsgi/.
> >
> > I need help in what should be in the *yourapplication.wsgi* file.
> > Does this file contain Python code?
> >
> > My project folder is /Z/flask and it runs fine in the development
> > server, ie http://localhost:5000.
> >
> >
> > */Z/flask/app.py* contains:
> >
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/python3
>
> If you use python3, you'll probably want to install
> libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 instead. Though I do not know what python3
> version it uses on your machine, if it happens to be anything below
> python3.3, you'll probably have bad luck with your deployment.
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > */Z/flask/views/general.py* contains:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > */Z/flask/views/__init__.py* is an empty file
> >
> > What should be in *yourapplication.wsgi*?  Also, what does this
> > paragraph in that documentation page mean:
> >
> > "If you don?t have a factory function for application creation but a
> > singleton instance you can directly import that one as application."
> >
> >
> > The folder /Z/flask is owned by user *pi*.  I think apache2 runs
> > using user *www-data*.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> In the case of flask, you just want to import your "app" from your
> app.py file, and name it "application"
>
> I usually just call the file "wsgi.py", because well, it's supposed to
> be a python file. But that shouldn't actually matter to much.
>
> That file should be located in /Z/flask/ and probably contain something
> like:
>
> from app import app as application
>
> That's pretty much all.
>
> --
> nitori
>
>
>
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