How to run Flask Server in the background

Use:

$ sudo nohup python app1c.py > log.txt 2>&1 &

nohup allows to run command/process or shell script that can continue running in the background after you log out from a shell.

> log.txt: it forword the output to this file.

2>&1: move all the stderr to stdout.

The final & allows you to run a command/process in background on the current shell.

python flask raspberry-pi

Install Node package forever at here https://www.npmjs.com/package/forever
Then use

forever start -c python your_script.py

to start your script in the background. Later you can use

forever stop your_script.py

to stop the script

python flask raspberry-pi

You have multiple options:

$ sudo python app1c.py &

Medium: install tmux with apt-get install tmuxlaunch tmux and start your app as before and detach with CTRL+B.
Complexer:Read run your flask script with a wsgi server - uwsgi, gunicorn, nginx.

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