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How to use Django with Gunicorn
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.. highlight:: bash
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Gunicorn_ ('Green Unicorn') is a pure-Python WSGI server for UNIX. It has no
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dependencies and is easy to install and use.
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.. _Gunicorn: http://gunicorn.org/
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There are two ways to use Gunicorn with Django. One is to have Gunicorn treat
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Django as just another WSGI application. The second is to use Gunicorn's
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special `integration with Django`_.
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.. _integration with Django: http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/run.html#django-manage-py
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Installing Gunicorn
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===================
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Installing gunicorn is as easy as ``sudo pip install gunicorn``. For more
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details, see the `gunicorn documentation`_.
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.. _gunicorn documentation: http://gunicorn.org/install.html
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Running Django in Gunicorn as a generic WSGI application
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========================================================
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When Gunicorn is installed, a ``gunicorn`` command is available which starts
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the Gunicorn server process. At its simplest, gunicorn just needs to be called
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with a the location of a WSGI application object.::
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gunicorn [OPTIONS] APP_MODULE
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Where ``APP_MODULE`` is of the pattern ``MODULE_NAME:VARIABLE_NAME``. The
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module name should be a full dotted path. The variable name refers to a WSGI
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callable that should be found in the specified module.
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So for a typical Django project, invoking gunicorn would look like::
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gunicorn myproject.wsgi:application
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(This requires that your project be on the Python path; the simplest way to
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ensure that is to run this command from the same directory as your
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``manage.py`` file.)
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Using Gunicorn's Django integration
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.. note::
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If you are using Django 1.4 or newer, it’s highly recommended to simply run
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your application with the WSGI interface using the ``gunicorn`` command
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as described above.
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To use Gunicorn's built-in Django integration, first add ``"gunicorn"`` to
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:setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`. Then run ``python manage.py run_gunicorn``.
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This provides a few Django-specific niceties:
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* sets the gunicorn process name to be that of the project
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* validates installed models
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* allows an ``--adminmedia`` option for passing in the location of the
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admin media files.
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See Gunicorn's `deployment documentation`_ for additional tips on starting and
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maintaining the Gunicorn server.
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.. _deployment documentation: http://gunicorn.org/deploy.html
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