Serving in uWSGI

[marconi]

How do I serve my Django site using uWSGI with the SocketIOServer? I tried using the following uwsgi config:

[uwsgi]
socket = 127.0.0.1:3031
master = true
processes = 2
env = DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=demo.settings
module = run

and I have run.py:

from gevent import monkey
from socketio.server import SocketIOServer
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
import os
import sys

monkey.patch_all()

PORT = 3031

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'demo.settings'

application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
SocketIOServer(('', PORT), application, namespace="socket.io").serve_forever()

but it just keeps on loading. Any ideas on how I might tell uWSGI to use SocketIOServer for serving my app?

[dswarbrick]

You should probably ask this on the uWSGI lists/forums, as it's more a case of "how do I use WebSockets under uWSGI?" I believe there has been some work done in that area, but since WebSockets are essentially incompatible with the WSGI 1.0 spec, it's unlikely to work.

[sontek]

You also need gevent to work, and uWSGI has horrible gevent support ( http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Gevent ), so I would recommend using gunicorn instead.

[marconi]

Hey guys, thanks will try it but I wonder if Gunicorn works with Apache? I'm pretty much stuck with it, do you think it will work the same as with Nginx if I use proxy pass in Apache to Gunicorn or do you recon there might be some issues?

[dswarbrick]

Gunicorn can serve content completely independently of Apache, or you can use Apache's mod_proxy to hand requests to a backend Gunicorn server (but WebSockets won't work through mod_proxy).

[marconi]

@dswarbrick yayks, just as when I was thinking all request comes in apache and just forward the socketio related to gunicorn. :/ Could you enlighten me why gunicorn won't work under mod_proxy?

[sontek]

@marconi What I use is gunicorn with a gevent worker and nginx as a proxy with buffering off. Its very fast/scalable and works just the way you would want it to.

[marconi]

@sontek the thing is, our sysad is quite attached to Apache. I'll give it another shot, might be able to convince him this time. :)

[sontek]

Yeah, you can use apache. I know someone who does HAProxy + Apache but I haven't done it.

[dswarbrick]

@sontek Can you elaborate on what you mean by using nginx as a proxy? Is that proxying WebSockets?