Configuring Runit for Gunicorn and Django Installed in a Virtualenv on Ubuntu
I couldn't find any documentation that covered all the pieces for configuring my latest Django site so I hope this helps someone else out.
I had used mod_wsgi under Apache for my other Django sites. But now I'm using different python versions for the sites (until if/when I update the older sites) and I wasn't getting the correct versions of some python libraries (even though virtualenv apeared to be putting the appropriate python packages at the start of the sys.path). So I decided to configure Apache to ProxyPass to Gunicorn so I could run my Django app in its virtualenv without it getting any other python modules.
Installing Gunicorn
I installed Gunicorn into the virtualenv for my application, which simplifies using gunicorn from the command line. Assuming /home/user/virtualenvs/myapp is the location of the virtualenv:
$ source /home/user/virtualenvs/myapp/bin/activate $ pip install gunicorn or $ easy_install gunicorn
This copies gunicorn_django to the /home/user/virtualenvs/myapp/bin directory. Test gunicorn with your app, assuming your Django app is located at /home/user/source/myapp, as follows:
$ source /home/user/virtualenvs/myapp/bin/activate (myapp)$ cd /home/user/source/myapp (myapp)$ gunicorn_djangoGunicorn starts myapp using the settings.py file in the current directory on 127.0.0.1:8000. Ctrl-C to stop the process.
Installing Runit on Ubuntu
There are two runit packages. You want the one that only runs services you add to it:
$ sudo apt-get install runit
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runsvdir (start) waiting
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You'll want to create a directory for the application and a run script in /etc/service:
$ sudo mkdir /etc/service/myapp
$ sudo vi /etc/service/myapp/run
# enter the run script I'll show below
$ sudo chmod +x /etc/service/myapp/run
# stop runit from trying to run gunicorn until we are ready
$ sudo sv stop myapp
ok: down: myapp: 0s, normally up
The example run script checked into Gunicorn had some syntax errors and wasn't quite what I wanted. Here's my version:
#!/bin/sh
GUNICORN=/home/user/virtualenvs/myapp/bin/gunicorn_django
ROOT=/home/user/source/myapp
PID=/var/run/myapp.pid
if [ -f $PID ]
then rm $PID
fi
cd $ROOT
exec $GUNICORN -c $ROOT/gunicorn.conf.py --pid=$PID
You can create a configuration file for gunicorn to use or just create an empty file for now:
$ touch /home/user/source/myapp/gunicorn.conf.py
If you have multiple appserver you'll need to run gunicorn on different ports, you can put the configuration in the gunicorn.conf.py file:
bind = "127.0.0.1:8111"
Putting it Together
Now you can test that the run script works when run as root:
$ sudo /etc/service/myapp/run
Gunicorn should start and start the appserver. If it fails you can debug the script via:
$ sudo bash -x /etc/service/myapp/run
Tell runit to start and keep gunicorn running:
$ sudo sv start myapp ok: run: myapp: (pid 7540) 0s $ sudo sv status myapp run: myapp: (pid 7543) 1s
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