app.py

import os
import stat

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Set the permissions of the shell script to be executable
    script_path = './start_server.sh'
    os.chmod(script_path, stat.S_IRWXU | stat.S_IRWXG | stat.S_IRWXO)  # rwxrwxrwx

    # Run the shell script to start the Flask app with Gunicorn
    os.system(script_path)