Flappy Flask File Uploader

Flappy Flask application to upload videos or images to a web server. Users can describe the photo and add a date.

Features!

• File upload
• Users can upload pictures
• It does not need a database
• Files get stored in the files ystem
• Administrators can view all pictures on one page with the user inserted data

Dependencies

• The server has to run on Linux
• Python3

pip packages (tested)

• autopep8 1.5.5
• click 7.1.2
• dnspython 2.1.0
• email-validator 1.1.2
• Flask 1.1.2
• Flask-Login 0.5.0
• Flask-Reuploaded 0.4.0
• Flask-Uploads 0.2.1
• Flask-WTF 0.14.3
• idna 3.1
• itsdangerous 1.1.0
• Jinja2 2.11.2
• MarkupSafe 1.1.1
• pip 20.0.2
• pkg-resources 0.0.0
• pycodestyle 2.6.0
• setuptools 44.0.0
• toml 0.10.2
• Werkzeug 0.16.0
• WTForms 2.3.3

Bootstrap is used with filestyle.

Installation

For debugging on local host

• install python 3
• go into a new project folder
• execute the "setupDev.sh" script to create a virtual environment and install the dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install python3
$ cd nameOfProjectFolder
$ ./setupDev.sh

To start the webServer

$ cd nameOfProjectFolder
$ ./start.sh

Customize your instance of this application by editing the "config. json" file. You although can switch between different configurations by setting the environment variable "CONF_FIELD" to a value existing in your json File.

config.json

{
    "default": {
      ...
    },
    "bilderupload": {
      ...
    }
}
    

environment variable "CONF_FIELD"

$export CONF_FIELD=default 

or

$export CONF_FIELD=bilderupload 

To deploy the application on apache2 follow this guide: [https://www.codementor.io/@abhishake/minimal-apache-configuration-for-deploying-a-flask-app-ubuntu-18-04-phu50a7ft]

Otherwise, read the documentation. [https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/deploying/]

You can use the "pipi.sh" script to install the pip dependencies.

Important, before you deploy! change the password and secret in config.json

        ...
        "password": "superSicher123123", <---change this
        "username": "admin",
        "secret": "a6d7f6bhas9d8f76asdf876af8364fgaiefzba3f7ae87zvgiawuzegfivawefz", <---change this
        ...

Todos

• Fix Date Field
• Fix color of file upload
• Change CSS Theme
• move "database" location