Add a prefix to all Flask routes

Question

I have a prefix that I want to add to every route. Right now I add a constant to the route at every definition. Is there a way to do this automatically?

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Answer 1

My solution where flask and PHP apps coexist nginx and PHP5.6

KEEP Flask in root and PHP in subdirectories

sudo vi /etc/php/5.6/fpm/php.ini

Add 1 line

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

sudo vi /etc/php/5.6/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
listen = /run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock

uwsgi

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

USE NESTED LOCATIONS for PHP and let FLASK remain in root

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    # SSL configuration
    #
    # listen 443 ssl default_server;
    # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
    #
    # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
    # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
    #
    # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
    # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
    #
    # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
    # Don't use them in a production server!
    #
    # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

    root /var/www/html;

    # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
    index index.html index.htm index.php index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name _;

    # Serve a static file (ex. favico) outside static dir.
    location = /favico.ico  {    
        root /var/www/html/favico.ico;    
    }

    # Proxying connections to application servers
    location / {
        include            uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass         127.0.0.1:5000;
    }

    location /pcdp {
        location ~* \.php$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }
    }

    location /phpmyadmin {
        location ~* \.php$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #   include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    #
    #   # With php7.0-cgi alone:
    #   fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    #   # With php7.0-fpm:
    #   fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    #}

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #   deny all;
    #}
}

READ carefully https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-nginx-server-and-location-block-selection-algorithms

We need to understand location matching (none): If no modifiers are present, the location is interpreted as a prefix match. This means that the location given will be matched against the beginning of the request URI to determine a match. =: If an equal sign is used, this block will be considered a match if the request URI exactly matches the location given. ~: If a tilde modifier is present, this location will be interpreted as a case-sensitive regular expression match. ~*: If a tilde and asterisk modifier is used, the location block will be interpreted as a case-insensitive regular expression match. ^~: If a carat and tilde modifier is present, and if this block is selected as the best non-regular expression match, regular expression matching will not take place.

Order is important, from nginx's "location" description:

To find location matching a given request, nginx first checks locations defined using the prefix strings (prefix locations). Among them, the location with the longest matching prefix is selected and remembered. Then regular expressions are checked, in the order of their appearance in the configuration file. The search of regular expressions terminates on the first match, and the corresponding configuration is used. If no match with a regular expression is found then the configuration of the prefix location remembered earlier is used.

It means:

First =. ("longest matching prefix" match)
Then implicit ones. ("longest matching prefix" match)
Then regex. (first match)