ezcomic

ezcomic is a blog style script for hosting comic book websites, written using Flask for Python 3.

After installation, register an administrator account to post, edit and reorder comics.

Installation

A working installation of Python 3 is required.

Clone the repository using git, or download and extract a zip file of the latest release.

Windows

• Install python3
• Install pip3
• Open a command prompt
• pip3 install virtualenv
• C:\python34\Scripts\virtualenv venv
• venv\Scripts\activate.bat
• C:\python34\Scripts\pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• copy config.py-dist config.py Edit config.py to specify a title and secret.

Linux

• Install python3, pip3, virtualenv
• virtualenv venv
• source ./venv/scripts/activate
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• cp config.py-dist config.py Edit config.py to specify a title and secret.

Usage

python ezcomic.py Open http://localhost:5000 in your browser.

uwsgi

Edit the included uwsgi.json config file appropriately, and run with uwsgi uwsgi.json. Configure your web server to proxy requests to the appropriate port.

Reuse

This codebase may be useful for reference to Flask beginners. It is a simple 2 page application which includes the following:

• Flask with Jinja2 templating
• Data storage using SQLAlchemy ORM with sqlite, easily adaptable to MySQL
• Correct usage of bcrypt with individual salts
• User accounts with registration and permissions using flask_login

License

Released under GNU GPLv3