Published on May 09, 2010.
TweetThis is a simple Debian init.d script for my self-hosted Django/Gunicorn websites. Note that it runs inside a virtualenv (my installed Django versions are different in each virtualenv). If you have questions: comment this post!
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: seismic_web
# Required-Start: $local_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Gunicorn processes for seismic_web
### END INIT INFO
# www-data is the default www user on debian
USER=www-data
NAME="seismic_web"
GUNICORN_RUN="gunicorn_django"
# Confdir: the Django project inside the virtualenv
CONFDIR="/home/thomas/seismic_web/seismic_web"
VENV_ACTIVATION=". ../bin/activate"
RETVAL=0
# PID: I always name my gunicorn pidfiles this way
PID="/tmp/gunicorn_"$NAME".pid"
# source function library
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
start()
{
echo "Starting $NAME."
cd $CONFDIR;
su -c "$VENV_ACTIVATION; $GUNICORN_RUN" $USER && echo "OK" || echo "failed";
}
stop()
{
echo "Stopping $NAME"
kill -QUIT `cat $PID` && echo "OK" || echo "failed";
}
reload()
{
echo "Reloading $NAME:"
if [ -f $PID ]
then kill -HUP `cat $PID` && echo "OK" || echo "failed";
fi
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
reload
;;
reload)
reload
;;
force-reload)
stop && start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
RETVAL=1
esac
exit $RETVAL