Added flask env variables, made python path less specific, avoided 'name resolution' error in run.py

Author: BrianRamsay

README.md

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 # About This Application
 
 To build this application you must...
-1. Run the setup file with the command
+1. Have python 2.7 and `virtualenv` installed
+2. Run the setup file with the command
 	source setup.sh
-2. Populate the database with generic values
+3. Populate the database with generic values
 	python reset-db.py
-3. Add your current machine user id to admin in config/role.yaml 
-4. Start Appache server to serve application
+4. Add your current machine user id to admin in config/roles.yaml 
+5. Start webserver to serve application
 	python run.py
-5. Open 0.0.0.0:8000 in your browser
+6. Open 0.0.0.0:8080 in your browser
 
 # Relevant Documentation
 

config/roles.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ admin:
   - hooverk
   - insengrim
   - ramsayb2
+  - heggens
 #  - database Roles
 
 systemAdmin:

run.py

@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
 import os
 
 # Builds the server configuration
+IP = '0.0.0.0'
 if os.getenv('USER'):
   hostname = os.getenv('USER')
-  IP = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
-else:
-  IP = '0.0.0.0'
+  try:
+    IP = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
+  except:
+    pass
 
 # Run the web application.
 app.run(debug = config.sys.debug, host = IP, port = config.sys.port)

setup.sh

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 # exporting these variables into the shell environment before
 # sourcing this script. If these variables exist before this
 # script is sourced, then the pre-existing values will be used.
-WERKZEUG_VERSION="${WERKZEUG_VERSION:-0.16.0}"
 FLASK_VERSION="${FLASK_VERSION:-0.12.1}"
+WERKZEUG_VERSION="${WERKZEUG_VERSION:-0.16.0}"
 WTFORMS_VERSION="${WTFORMS_VERSION:-2.1}"
 FLASK_SESSION_VERSION="${FLASK_SESSION_VERSION:-0.2.3}"
 FLASK_ADMIN_VERSION="${FLASK_ADMIN_VERSION:-1.4.0}"
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 # Create and activate a clean virtual environment.
-virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python2.7 venv
+virtualenv --python=python2.7 venv
 . venv/bin/activate
 
 # Create a data directory
@@ -91,3 +91,8 @@ pip install "openpyxl==$OPENPYXL_VERSION" #2.4.5
 
 pip install "unidecode==$UNIDECODE_VERSION" #0.4.20
 # https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode
+
+export FLASK_APP=run.py
+export FLASK_ENV=development
+export FLASK_RUN_PORT=8080
+export FLASK_RUN_HOST=0.0.0.0   # To allow external routing to the application for development