Help with environment (.env) setup with Python and Flask on Jonny

[dkobrin]

Hi, Thanks for setting all this up and taking the time to support all of us!

My questions is regarding properly setting up environmental variables for Flask. I have set up a sample (simplified) project to iron this issue out.  https://flask.dkobrin.helioho.st/MyNewFlaskApp/

I have looked through the discord for advice on this issue and have located my .env file in a non-public folder /home/environments/MyNewFlaskApp/.env and added the path to my load_dotenv (and for debugging dotenv_values), but although pathlib verifies the file exists, there are no key value pairs loaded. I set the permissions for the .env to 644 although I think it should be 640... 

here is the server

import sys

from flask import Flask, __version__
from dotenv import load_dotenv, dotenv_values
from os import environ as env

from getenv_path import env_path

# load environment vars
load_dotenv("/home/dkobrin.helioho.st/environment/MyNewFlaskApp/.env") #env_path)
config = dotenv_values("/home/dkobrin.helioho.st/environment/MyNewFlaskApp/.env") #env_path)
config2 = dotenv_values("/home/environment/MyNewFlaskApp/.env")
if env_path.exists:
  print(env_path)
  print('FOO is')
  print(env.get('FOO'))
  print(config)
  print(config2)

app = Flask(__name__)
application = app

@app.route("/")
def hello():
  if env_path.exists:
    print(env_path)
    print('FOO is')
    print(env.get('FOO'))
    print(config)
    print(config2)
  return """

    Flask is working on HelioHost.<br><br>
    <a href="/flasktest/python/version/">Python version</a><br>
    <a href="/flasktest/flask/version/">Flask version</a>

  """

@app.route("/python/version/")
def p_version():
  return "Python version %s<br><br><a href='/flasktest/'>back</a>" % sys.version

@app.route("/flask/version/")
def f_version():
  return "Flask version %s<br><br><a href='/flasktest/'>back</a>" % __version__

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

the sample base code does work so the .htaccess and flask.wsgi seem to be ok

here is my log output

I feel like I'm missing something simple here.

Thanks again!