# Hosting Python Flask Applications as a service on Ubuntu Linux Server

Let us explore how to run Python Flask application as a Linux Service.

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Let’s follow the below steps :

1. In order to deploy a service on Ubuntu server we need to create a file (name of the service : riiva) :
    

`sudo nano /etc/system/system/riiva.service`

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2\. Now, use the following caption :

`[Unit] section:`

`Description=uWSGI instance to serve myproject`

`After=network.target`

`[Service]`

`User=ubuntu`

`Group=www-data`

`WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu/riva-stremingserver/`

`Environment=”PATH=/home/ubuntu/stream/bin”`

`ExecStart= gunicorn — bind 0.0.0.0:9501 -k flask_sockets.worker app:app`

`[Install]`

`WantedBy=multi-user.target`

`service file`

3\. Here the following terms included :

* **User:-** The user is defined as the current user.
    
* **Group:**\- the user is in which group of linux.
    
* **WorkingDirectory:**\- It refers to the directory which you want to be worked on.
    
* **Environment:**\- It the takes the path of env where it can be run.
    
* **ExecStart:**\- It refers to the command which you want to execute.
    

4\. After this, to start this service we have a command:

`-> sudo systemctl start riiva`

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5\. In order to see the status of logs of this service, we have a command:

`sudo systemctl status riiva`

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6\. Now to restart the service, we have a command:

`sudo systemctl restart riiva`

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Your application is hosted upon [HTTP://IP-ADDRESS:](http://HTTP://IP-ADDRESS:)9501

7\. Finally, to end this service, we have a command:

`sudo systemctl stop riiva`

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**Congratulations,** You are done with the hosting.

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