Flask tutorial - 404 Not Found

Question

I just finished the Flask basic tutorial (here) and even though I've done completed every step, when I am trying

python flaskr.py

what I get is a 404 Not Found error saying

The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

here is the code inside the file

import os
import sqlite3
from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, abort, render_template, flash

#create app
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(__name__)

#load default conf and override config from an env var
app.config.update(dict(
    DATABASE=os.path.join(app.root_path, 'flaskr.db'),
    DEBUG=True,
    SECRET_KEY = 'dev key',
    USERNAME = 'admin',
    PASSWORD = 'admin'
))
app.config.from_envvar('FLASKR_SETTINGS', silent=True)

def connect_db():
    """connect to the specific db"""
    rv = sqlite3.connect(app.config['DATABASE'])
    rv.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
    return rv

if __name__== '__main__':
    app.run()


def get_db():
    """opens a new db connection if there is none yet for the cyrrent app"""
    if not hasattr(g, 'sqlite_db'):
        g.sqlite_db = connect_db()
        return g.sqlite_db

@app.teardown_appcontext
def close_db(error):
    """closes the db again at the end of the request."""
if hasattr(g, 'sqlite_db'):
    g.sqlite_db.close()

def init_db():
    with app.app_context():
        db = get_db()
        with app.open_resource('schema.sql', mode='r') as f:
            db.cursor().executescript(f.read())
        db.commit()


@app.route('/')
def show_entries():
    db_get_db()
    cur = db.execute('select title, text from entries order by id desc')
    entries = cur.fetchall()
    return render_template('show_entries.html', entries=entries)

@app.route('/add', methods=['POST'])
def add_entry():
    if not session.get('logged_in'):
        abort(401)
    db = get_db()
    db.execute('insert into entries (title, text) values (?,?)',
        [request.form['title'], request.form['text']])
    db.commit()
    flash('New entry was successfully posted')
    return redirect(url_for('show_entries'))

@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
    error = None
    if request.method == 'POST':
        if request.form['username'] != app.config['USERNAME']:
            error = 'Invalid username'
        elif request.form['password'] != app.config['PASSWORD']:
            error = 'Invalid password'
        else:
            session['logged_in'] = True
            flash('You were logged in')
            return redirect(url_for('show_entries'))
    return render_template('login.html', error=error)

@app.route('/logout')
def logout():
    session.pop('logged_in', None)
    flash('You were logged out')
    return redirect(url_for('show_entries'))

This is the console message I get (plus 3 attempts to refresh page):

user@user:~/Flask/flaskr$ python flaskr.py
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/
 * Restarting with reloader
127.0.0.1 - - [19/Aug/2014 15:23:40] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [19/Aug/2014 15:23:41] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [19/Aug/2014 15:23:42] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -

Any suggestions on what might be going wrong?

Answer 1

You put your app.run() call too early:

if __name__== '__main__':
    app.run()

This is executed before any of your routes are registered. Move these two lines to the end of your file.

Next, you have the first line in show_entries() is incorrect:

def show_entries():
    db_get_db()

There is no db_get_db() function; this should be db = get_db() instead.

Answer 2

Happened to me also while following Flask Application Setup here . The error was gone after appending a trailing slash at the end of the route.

@app.route('/hello')
    def hello():
        return 'Hello, World!'

was changed to

@app.route('/hello/')
    def hello():
        return 'Hello, World!'

and the problem was solved. Hope it helps for anyone who is searching for a problem like this.