A very simple Python web application that offers a web interface for searching a system's filesystem by name using locate / mlocate.

• Python3 (developed using 3.5.2)
• Flask (developed using 0.11 installed in a venv with pip)
• A linux distribution with locate/mlocate set up (developed on Ubuntu 16.04)

• Clone to local filesystem
• cd to directory
• python3 app.py
• For detailed instructions, with autostart and using gunicorn to serve the webapp, see below screenshot

• git clone https://github.com/ehoppmann/mlocate-web.git
• cd mlocate-web
• sudo apt-get install python3-pip
• pip3 install virtualenv
• virtualenv venv
• source venv/bin/activate
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• pip3 install gunicorn
• Create the file /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service with this content:

[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
PIDFile=/run/gunicorn/pid
User=<USER YOU WANT THIS TO RUN AS - SUGGEST LIMITED USER>
Group=<GROUP YOU WANT THIS TO RUN AS>
WorkingDirectory=<BASE DIRECTORY - WHERE YOU CLONED TO>
ExecStart=<BASE DIRECTORY - WHERE YOU CLONED TO>/venv/bin/gunicorn --workers 3 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 app:app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• systemctl start gunicorn
• systemctl enable gunicorn

The search service should now be available on port 8000 and will automatically start with the system.