Gunicorn (‘Green Unicorn’) is a pure-Python WSGI server for UNIX. It has no dependencies and is easy to install and use.
Installing gunicorn is as easy as sudo pip install gunicorn
. For more
details, see the gunicorn documentation.
When Gunicorn is installed, a gunicorn
command is available which starts
the Gunicorn server process. At its simplest, gunicorn just needs to be called
with a the location of a WSGI application object.:
gunicorn [OPTIONS] APP_MODULE
Where APP_MODULE
is of the pattern MODULE_NAME:VARIABLE_NAME
. The
module name should be a full dotted path. The variable name refers to a WSGI
callable that should be found in the specified module.
So for a typical Django project, invoking gunicorn would look like:
gunicorn myproject.wsgi:application
(This requires that your project be on the Python path; the simplest way to
ensure that is to run this command from the same directory as your
manage.py
file.)
See Gunicorn’s deployment documentation for additional tips.
Oct 03, 2017