Gunicorn will not bind to my application

Question

I have made a django web app using the default localhost, however I am trying to set it up on a server so that I can configure a postgre database and continue on without having to redo the database later on.

I am hosting the site though a digital ocean ubuntu 14 droplet. When I created the droplet I selected that it already come preconfigured for django. It uses nginx and gunicorn to host the site.

When I first created the instance of the server, a basic django app was configured to work on the given IP. And it did.

I tried cloning my project into the same directory as that project assuming it would live on the python path ('/home/project') and configured the nginx to serve up 127.0.0.1:8000 per some of the documentation I found.

I believe the issue lies in when I try to bind gunicorn. I get the following error with this input.

gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:8000 GenericRestaurantSystem/wsgi.py:application

ImportError: Failed to find application, did you mean 'program/wsgi:application'?

I am not 100% sure, but it seems as though gunicorn is not serving up anything (or not even on) at this point.

Any suggestions as to binding this application successfully?

Answer 1

Well that's not how you refer to the WSGI file with gunicorn. See the docs:

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.

So if your wsgi.py file is in GenericRestaurantSystem/wsgi.py, your command should be

gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:8000 GenericRestaurantSystem.wsgi:application

Answer 2

I guess it should be

gunicorn GenericRestaurantSystem.wsgi:application