diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 578645b..e3c3b25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Install [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/downloads) and start the Mongo server b
     
     # Make a virtual environment for twxplorer
     mkvirtualenv twxplorer
-    
+
     # Change into the twxplorer repository
     cd twxplorer
     
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Install [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/downloads) and start the Mongo server b
     
     # Install requirements
     pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+    # If compilation fails with lxml installation error, install both libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev
+    apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
     
     # Download nltk stopwords (if necessary)
     python -m nltk.downloader stopwords
diff --git a/conf/loc/apache b/conf/loc/apache
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93f147a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/loc/apache
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    ServerName twxplorer
+    ServerAlias twxplorer
+    ServerAdmin admin@knightlab.com
+    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/twxplorer.log
+
+    LogLevel info
+
+    SetEnvIf X-Forwarded-Protocol "^https$" HTTPS=on
+
+    WSGIDaemonProcess twxplorer display-name=%{GROUP} maximum-requests=10000
+    WSGIProcessGroup twxplorer
+    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/chris/projects/NUKnightLab/twxplorer/conf/prd/wsgi.py
+</VirtualHost>
diff --git a/conf/loc/flask_config.py b/conf/loc/flask_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c06409
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/loc/flask_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+DEBUG = True
+SECRET_KEY = 'EDIT_THIS'
diff --git a/conf/loc/wsgi.py b/conf/loc/wsgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdc7e3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/loc/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+"""
+WSGI config for twxplorer project.
+"""
+import os
+import sys
+import site
+
+site.addsitedir('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
+sys.path.append('/home/chris/projects/NUKnightLab/twxplorer')
+sys.stdout = sys.stderr
+
+os.environ.setdefault('FLASK_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'core.settings.loc')
+
+from api import app as application
diff --git a/core/settings/loc.py b/core/settings/loc.py
index 199f079..12c1258 100644
--- a/core/settings/loc.py
+++ b/core/settings/loc.py
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@
 # a parallel directory structure next to where you have this code checked out such that the
 # secrets path defined below is a valid directory path. 
 # see https://dev.twitter.com/apps to create an app that you can use for Twxplorer development
-secrets_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, '../secrets/twxplorer/loc'))
-sys.path.append(secrets_path)
-from secrets import * 
+# secrets_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, '../secrets/twxplorer/loc'))
+# sys.path.append(secrets_path)
+# from secrets import * 
 # or instead of importing from secrets, uncomment these lines and provide appropriate values
-# TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = 'consumer key'
-# TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = 'consumer secret'
+#TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = ''
+#TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
 
 # Set static URL
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@
 # see http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/config/ for more.
 # Twxplorer has no special requirements for what goes in this file, but Flask will want you to have a SECRET_KEY
 # and you may want to set the DEBUG flag to True
-os.environ['FLASK_CONFIG_MODULE'] = os.path.join(secrets_path, 'flask_config.py')
\ No newline at end of file
+os.environ['FLASK_CONFIG_MODULE'] = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'conf/loc/flask_config.py'))