Deploy FliKISS

FliKISS is a Flask application which is served by the CherryPy WSGI container.

Launch on port 80

Note

On Unix systems ports below to 1024 are reserved to processes run by root

CherryPy stands on its own, but as an application server, it is often located in shared or complex environments.

If it is not your case you can deploy FliKISS launching it with the following parameters as a daemon

$ flikiss --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 80

Note

The ip set to 0.0.0.0 allows users to access your website from outside.

Reverse proxy

It is not uncommon to run CherryPy behind a reverse proxy if you already have a web server installed preventing you to use port 80.

First you need to run FliKISS as a daemon.

Here’s for example a simple Nginx configuration which proxies to an application served on localhost at port 8000. You can easily adapt it to your needs

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.yourwebsite.com

    location </your-sub-url>/static/ {
        alias /path/to/flikiss/flikiss/static/;
    }

    location </your-sub-url>/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    }
}

You can make some adjustments to get a better user experience

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.yourwebsite.com

    location </your-sub-url>/static/ {
            alias /path/to/flikiss/flikiss/static/;
            gzip  on;
            gzip_http_version 1.0;
            gzip_vary on;
            gzip_comp_level 6;
            gzip_proxied any;
            gzip_buffers 16 8k;
            gzip_disable ~@~\MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)~@~];
            expires modified +90d;
    }

    location </your-sub-url>/ {
            proxy_pass 127.0.0.1:8000;
            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    }

}