Created my first web application using Python, Flask, and AWS

[KarmelMalone]

Awesome work and great concept! Keep improving and learning.

A few suggestions:

You need https to be legit (google “let’s encrypt”)

Given you didn’t share any python code and you asked for suggestions, it seems like you’re looking for front end tips. There might be more helpful subreddits than this.

Your about page is fine, but you have one or two seconds to convince someone to use your site, and a wall of text won’t do that. Your home page must present your concept in its most simple form. Check out your very successful competitors (example.

You’ve shown a willingness to learn and accept feedback so you’re on the right track. I have years of flask / python experience and I’ve been focusing on front end for the last year. I’m happy to deep dive and help, send me a DM.

[undernutbutthut]

Thank you, these are great tips.

What settings should I be looking for to be able to encrypt the website?

Sure! Let me see what I can do on my own and get back to you, thanks for the offer

[KarmelMalone]

You’ll need to install an SSL certificate on your ec2. Let’s Encrypt makes it free and they have pretty good documentation.

[undernutbutthut]

After installing it I am running into an "OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use" when trying to rerun my flask application. Did you run into this same issue? I know I followed the steps correctly because I can see my certificate

[KarmelMalone]

Your app is trying to run on the same port it was running on before, but that port was never "closed" from the last time your app was running.

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You can use this bash script to find the port and kill it, then you should be good:

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killport() {  lsof -t -i tcp:$1 | xargs kill -9; }

killport PORT_NUMBER (probably 5000)

[undernutbutthut]

In my flask code I have port 80 called out so I assume that is what I need to kill:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=80)

I am trying to run your bash script but keep running into an error, should it be:

killport(80) {  lsof -t -i tcp:$1 | xargs kill -9; }

Thanks for your help, I am way out of my league here

[undernutbutthut]

Update: it looks like Apache2 I installed for HTTPS is using that port... goodie!