=============================== How to use Django with Gunicorn =============================== .. highlight:: bash Gunicorn_ ('Green Unicorn') is a pure-Python WSGI server for UNIX. It has no dependencies and is easy to install and use. .. _Gunicorn: http://gunicorn.org/ Installing Gunicorn =================== Installing gunicorn is as easy as ``pip install gunicorn``. For more details, see the `gunicorn documentation`_. .. _gunicorn documentation: http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/install.html 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 module containing a WSGI application object named `application`. So for a typical Django project, invoking gunicorn would look like:: gunicorn myproject.wsgi 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. .. _deployment documentation: http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/deploy.html