WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
Project description
Gunicorn
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.
Documentation
The documentation is hosted at http://docs.gunicorn.org.
Installation
Gunicorn requires Python 3.x >= 3.5.
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 for more details.
License
Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.
