Gunicorn with Django

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While searching for deploying the Django app, I found something called Gunicorn. I tried:

gunicorn sage.wsgi

where sage is the name of the Django project. And now the django app can be accessed from the default address.

To make it automatic, I had to do some tweaks like creating file in /etc/init and creating its symlink in /etc/init.d/ etc.

Here is the file civiloctave.conf in the folder /etc/init :

description "civiloctave"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5





script
NAME=sage
PORT=8000
NUM_WORKERS=2
TIMEOUT=120
USER=mandeep
GROUP=www-data
LOGFILE=/var/log/gunicorn/$NAME.log
LOGDIR=$(dirname $LOGFILE)
test -d $LOGDIR || mkdir -p $LOGDIR
cd /home/mandeep/CivilOctave/$NAME
gunicorn sage.wsgi





exec /home/mandeep/CivilOctave/$NAME/manage.py \
-w $NUM_WORKERS -t $TIMEOUT \
--user=$USER --group=$GROUP --log-level=debug \
--name=$NAME -b 127.0.0.1:$PORT \
--log-file=$LOGFILE 2>>$LOGFILE
end script

After creating its symlink in /etc/init.d/ and rebooting, the process starts itself and then we can open the address (i.e. localhost:8000) anytime in the browser to see it working. I couldn’t get it working through apache. I’ll get on that later on.

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