flask environment error in windows

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Ravi Pawar 170 August 16, 2019 0 Comments

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How to solve this error

Error: Could not locate a Flask application. You did not provide the “FLASK_APP” environment variable, and a “wsgi.py” or “app.py” module was not found in the current directory.

Vishal Sharma Answered question August 16, 2019

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2019-10-05T18:19:11+00:00

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here’s how I solved it.

first, go to the directory using your command prompt where your webapp for flask is located and then type these two commands.

set FLASK_APP="abc.py"
set FLASK_ENV=development

here abc is your webapp for flask to run.

then simply run flask

flask run

hope this will help

Don’t use quotes with your file name otherwise it would give you an error.

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flask environment error in windows

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