gunicorn

Gunicorn

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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
resource usage, and fairly speedy.

Feel free to join us in #gunicorn_ on Libera.chat_.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted at https://docs.gunicorn.org.

Installation

Gunicorn requires Python 3.x >= 3.7.

Install from PyPI::

$ pip install gunicorn

Usage

Basic usage::

$ gunicorn [OPTIONS] APP_MODULE

Where APP_MODULE is of the pattern $(MODULE_NAME):$(VARIABLE_NAME). The
module name can be a full dotted path. The variable name refers to a WSGI
callable that should be found in the specified module.

Example with test app::

$ cd examples
$ gunicorn --workers=2 test:app

Contributing

See our complete contributor's guide <CONTRIBUTING.md>_ for more details.

License

Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE_ file for more
details.

… _Unicorn: https://bogomips.org/unicorn/
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