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How to use Django with Gunicorn
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Gunicorn_ ('Green Unicorn') is a pure-Python WSGI server for UNIX. It has no
dependencies and can be installed using ``pip``.

.. _Gunicorn: https://gunicorn.org/

Installing Gunicorn
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Install gunicorn by running ``python -m pip install gunicorn``. For more
details, see the `gunicorn documentation`_.

.. _gunicorn documentation: https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/install.html

Running Django in Gunicorn as a generic WSGI application
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When Gunicorn is installed, a ``gunicorn`` command is available which starts
the Gunicorn server process. The simplest invocation of gunicorn is to pass the
location of a module containing a WSGI application object named
``application``, which for a typical Django project would look like::

    gunicorn myproject.wsgi

This will start one process running one thread listening on ``127.0.0.1:8000``.
It requires that your project be on the Python path; the simplest way to ensure
that is to run this command from the same directory as your ``manage.py`` file.

See Gunicorn's `deployment documentation`_ for additional tips.

.. _deployment documentation: https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/deploy.html