This guide outlines the steps to deploy a Flask web application with a MongoDB backend on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

1. AWS Account:

   • Ensure you have an AWS account. If not, sign up for an account at AWS.

2. AWS CLI and Elastic Beanstalk CLI:

   • Install the AWS CLI by following the instructions here.
   • Install the Elastic Beanstalk CLI by running pip install awsebcli.

3. MongoDB:

   • Set up a MongoDB database and obtain the MongoDB URI.

4. Git:

   • Install Git from https://git-scm.com/.

5. Python and Pip:

   • Ensure you have Python and Pip installed on your machine.

1. source venv/bin/activate
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. flask run
4. Open localhost:5000

1. source venv/bin/activate
2. pip freeze | xargs pip uninstall -y
3. deactivate

In the case of all dependencies are correctly installed but the app gets ModuleNotFoundError, do the following:

1. Close all IDE and terminal
2. Open IDE and terminal again

1. Install the most recent stable python version https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
2. python -m pip install --upgrade pip
3. virtualenv venv
4. set-executionpolicy remotesigned
5. .\venv\Scripts\activate
6. pip install -r requirements.txt

py -3.12 -m pip uninstall awsebcli