[1.7.x] Fixed #23430 -- simplified gunicorn deployment docs.

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Collin Anderson 2014-09-05 16:41:47 -07:00 committed by Tim Graham
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@ -22,21 +22,15 @@ Running Django in Gunicorn as a generic WSGI application
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 the location of a WSGI application object.::
with the location of a file containing a WSGI application object named
`application`. So for a typical Django project, invoking gunicorn would look
like::
gunicorn [OPTIONS] APP_MODULE
gunicorn myproject.wsgi
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.)
This will start one process running one thread listening on ``127.0.0.1:8000``.
It 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.