What “setup” have you seen work best? I used virtualenv and moved my django project inside this environment, however I have seen another setups where there is a folder for virtual environments and other for projects. virtualenv is a way to isolate Python environments; as such, it doesn’t have a large part to play at … Read more
Make sure gunicorn is in your requirements.txt
Your error message is ImportError: No module named ‘myproject.wsgi’ You ran the app with gunicorn –bind 0.0.0.0:8000 myproject.wsgi:application And wsgi.py has the line os.environ.setdefault(“DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE”, “settings”) This is the disconnect. In order to recognize the project as myproject.wsgi the parent directory would have to be on the python path… running cd .. && gunicorn –bind 0.0.0.0:8000 … Read more
run guncorn with –preload can see the error log, like this gunicorn app:application –preload -b 0.0.0.0:5000 This will usually give you a more detailed error message.
When in development mode and when you are using some other server for local development add this to your url.py from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns # … the rest of your URLconf goes here … urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns() More info here When in production you never, ever put gunicorn in front. Instead you use a server … Read more
Technically this is not an answer. But practically the answer I was looking for is how to run a WSGI web app (like Django) on Windows, and for those who got into this page because of that, here it is: I’m using waitress now, very good alternative 🙂 Basically all you have to do is … Read more
Let me attempt an answer. Let us assume that at the beginning my deployment only has a single gunicorn worker. This allows me to handle only one request at a time. My worker’s work is just to make a call to google.com and get the search results for a query. Now I want to increase … Read more
Pre-forking basically means a master creates forks which handle each request. A fork is a completely separate *nix process. Update as per the comments below. The pre in pre-fork means that these processes are forked before a request comes in. They can however usually be increased or decreased as the load goes up and down. … Read more
While this is old question you need to know that ever since version 19.0 gunicorn has had the –reload option. So now no third party tools are needed.
When running the development server – which is what you get by running app.run(), you get a single synchronous process, which means at most 1 request is being processed at a time. By sticking Gunicorn in front of it in its default configuration and simply increasing the number of –workers, what you get is essentially … Read more