Issue setting up Flask site

Question

I'm working through a short Flask tutorial and am having some issues. I got to the end and got a 500 Server error. If I run the .fcgi from within my virtual environment I get the message below. I don't see any errors in logs I have access to. Not really sure what the problem is.

• Shared host: Bluehost
• Python ver: 2.7.6

Error message

(flask_hello_world) me@domain [~/public_html/projects/flask_hello_world]# python flask_hello_world.fcgi
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param REQUEST_METHOD required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_NAME required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PORT required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PROTOCOL required by WSGI!
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 12

Hello World!

.htaccess

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ flask_hello_world.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteLog rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 3

flask_hello_world.fcgi

#!/path/to/python27/.virtenv/flask_hello_world/bin/python

from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
from flask_hello_world_app import app as application

if __name__ == '__main__':
WSGIServer(application).run()

flask_hello_world_app.py

from datetime import datetime
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello World!'

@app.route('/the-time')
def the_time():
     cur_time = str(datetime.now())
     return cur_time + ' is the current time!  ...YEAH!'

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

Packages Installed on /.virtenv/flask_hello_world

# pip list
Flask (0.10.1)
flup (1.0.2)
itsdangerous (0.23)
Jinja2 (2.7.1)
MarkupSafe (0.18)
pip (1.4.1)
setuptools (0.9.8)
Werkzeug (0.9.4)
wsgiref (0.1.2)

Answer 1

Two issues were actually causing my issues.

1. I used parentheses instead of curly brackets in the RewriteCond in my .htaccess file. This site helped point that out. http://www.lyxx.com/freestuff/002.html

2. The shebang in flask_hello_world.fcgi was incorrect. After fixing the issue with .htaccess I still received an Internal Server Error. Accessing the flask_hello_world.fcgi file directly gave me the error that pointed out the path issue.