Quick Start

$ sudo easy_install virtualenv
$ mkdir ~/environments/
$ virtualenv ~/environments/tutorial/
$ cd ~/environments/tutorial/
$ ls
bin  include  lib
$ source bin/activate
(tutorial) $ ./bin/easy_install gunicorn
(tutorial) $ mkdir myapp
(tutorial) $ cd myapp/
(tutorial) $ vi myapp.py
(tutorial) $ cat myapp.py 

def app(environ, start_response):
    data = "Hello, World!\n"
    start_response("200 OK", [
        ("Content-Type", "text/plain"),
        ("Content-Length", str(len(data)))
    ])
    return iter([data])

(tutorial) $ ../bin/gunicorn -w 4 myapp:app
2010-06-05 23:27:07 [16800] [INFO] Arbiter booted
2010-06-05 23:27:07 [16800] [INFO] Listening at: http://127.0.0.1:8000
2010-06-05 23:27:07 [16801] [INFO] Worker spawned (pid: 16801)
2010-06-05 23:27:07 [16802] [INFO] Worker spawned (pid: 16802)
2010-06-05 23:27:07 [16803] [INFO] Worker spawned (pid: 16803)
2010-06-05 23:27:07 [16804] [INFO] Worker spawned (pid: 16804)

About

Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.

Features

Version 0.13.4 / 2011-09-23