Local Installation

Using a local installation of SCS for production deployments is not recommended. Please use the Docker image instead

To create a local installation of SCS, for example for debugging or testing extensions, you can clone the simple-configuration-server repository locally. Below is a basic example of using uWSGI to run the application. You will need:

• A unix operating system (Windows should also work, but not with below steps)
• Python 3.11 needs to be installed (Test using python3.11 --version)

Then:

1. Create a .local subdirectory: mdkir -p .local

2. Create an app.py file inside the .local directory, with the following contents:

   import scs
   
   app = scs.create_app()
   

3. Open a terminal (bash) in the root directory of this repository, and do:

   ./install.sh
   source .env/bin/activate
   pip install uwsgi
   export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)
   # Choose appropriate directories, make sure they exist
   export SCS_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/scs
   # Now start the app from uWSGI
   cd .local
   uwsgi -s /tmp/scs.sock --manage-script-name --mount /=app:app
   

uWSGI should now be running the SCS application. For further documentation, for example on how to configure NGINX, please look at the Flask documentation.