template: doc.html title: Configure insert_settings: true _TOC_TOP_ .. contents:: :backlinks: top _TOC_BOT_ Overview -------- Gunicorn pulls configuration information from three distinct places. The first place that Gunicorn will read configuration from is the framework specific configuration file. Currently this only affects Paster applications. The second source of configuration information is a configuration file that is optionally specified on the command line. Anything specified in the Gunicorn config file will override any framework specific settings. Lastly, the command line arguments used to invoke Gunicorn are the final place considered for configuration settings. If an option is specified on the command line, this is the value that will be used. Once again, in order of least to most authoritative: 1. Framework Settings 2. Configuration File 3. Command Line Framework Settings ------------------ Currently, only Paster applications have access to framework specific settings. If you have ideas for providing settings to WSGI applications or pulling information from Django's settings.py feel free to open an issue_ to let us know. .. _issue: http://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues Paster Applications +++++++++++++++++++ In your INI file, you can specify to use Gunicorn as the server like such:: [server:main] use = egg:gunicorn#main host = 192.168.0.1 port = 80 workers = 2 proc_name = brim Any parameters that Gunicorn knows about will automatically be inserted into the base configuration. Remember that these will be overridden by the config file and/or the command line. Configuration File ------------------ The configuration file should be a valid Python source file. It only needs to be readable from the file system. More specifically, it does not need to be importable. Any Python is valid. Just consider that this will be run every time you start Gunicorn (including when you signal Gunicorn to reload). To set a parameter, just assign to it. There's no special syntax. The values you provide will be used for the configuration values. For instance:: import multiprocessing bind = "127.0.0.1:8000" workers = multiprocessing.cpu_count() * 2 + 1 On a side note, Python's older than 2.6 can use sysconf to get the number of processors:: import os def numCPUs(): if not hasattr(os, "sysconf"): raise RuntimeError("No sysconf detected.") return os.sysconf("SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN") Command Line ------------ If an option is specified on the command line, it overrides all other values that may have been specified in the app specific settings, or in the optional configuration file. Not all Gunicorn settings are available to be set from the command line. To see the full list of command line settings you can do the usual:: $ gunicorn -h There is also a ``--version`` flag available to the command line scripts that isn't mentioned in the list of settings. Settings -------- This is an exhaustive list of settings for Gunicorn. Some settings are only able to be set from a configuration file. The setting name is what should be used in the configuration file. The command line arguments are listed as well for reference on setting at the command line. %(settings)s