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pythonazuredeploymentflaskrequirements.txt
user3522242
user3522242

Reputation: 85

Azure deployment not installing Python packages listed in requirements.txt

This is my first experience deploying a Flask web app to Azure. I followed this tutorial.

The default demo app they have works fine for me.

Afterwards, I pushed my Flask app via git. The log shows deployment was successful. However, when I browse the hosted app via link provided in "Application Properties", I get a 500 error as follows:

The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.

Most likely causes: IIS received the request; however, an internal error occurred during the processing of the request. The root cause of this error depends on which module handles the request and what was happening in the worker process when this error occurred. IIS was not able to access the web.config file for the Web site or application. This can occur if the NTFS permissions are set incorrectly. IIS was not able to process configuration for the Web site or application. The authenticated user does not have permission to use this DLL. The request is mapped to a managed handler but the .NET Extensibility Feature is not installed.

The only off-base thing I can see by browsing the wwwroot via KUDU is that none of the packages I have installed in my local virtual environment are installed on Azure despite the existence of the "requirements.txt" file in wwwroot.

My understanding is that Azure would pip install any non existent package that it finds in the requirements.txt upon GIT successful push. But it doesn't seem to be happening for me.

Am I doing something wrong and the missing packages is just a symptom or could it be the cause the issue?

Notes:

My requirements.txt has the following:

bcrypt==3.1.0 cffi==1.7.0 click==6.6 Flask==0.11.1 Flask-Bcrypt==0.7.1 Flask-Login==0.3.2 Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.1 Flask-WTF==0.12 itsdangerous==0.24 Jinja2==2.8 MarkupSafe==0.23 pycparser==2.14 PyMySQL==0.7.7 python-http-client==1.2.3 six==1.10.0 smtpapi==0.3.1 SQLAlchemy==1.0.14 Werkzeug==0.11.10 WTForms==2.1

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7930

Answers (1)

Gary Liu
Gary Liu

Reputation: 13918

As Azure Web Apps will run a deploy.cmd script as the deployment task to control which commands or tasks will be run during the deployment.

You can use the command of Azure-CLI azure site deploymentscript --python to get the python applications' deployment task script.

And you can find the following script in this deploy.cmd sciprt:

IF NOT EXIST "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%\requirements.txt" goto postPython
IF EXIST "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%\.skipPythonDeployment" goto postPython

echo Detected requirements.txt.  You can skip Python specific steps with a .skipPythonDeployment file.

So the .skipPythonDeployment will skip all the following steps in deployment task, including creating virtual environment.

You can try to remove .skipPythonDeployment from your application, and try again.

Additionally, please refer to https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Custom-Deployment-Script for more info.

Upvotes: 2

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