Question

I am starting gunicon by calling python manage.py run_gunicorn (inside a virtualenv).

How can I achieve to restart gunicorn after my Ubuntu 12.04 server rebooted?

Answer 1

Since I’m on Ubuntu and like to work with tools already included in the distro I used Upstart to start gunicorn after booting the machine.

I put the following code into /etc/init/django_sf_flavour.conf :

description "Run Custom Script"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
exec /home/USER/bin/start_gunicorn.sh

Which executes this file (/home/USER/bin/start_gunicorn.sh) after booting:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
cd MY_PROJ_ROOT
source venv/bin/activate
test -d $LOGDIR || mkdir -p $LOGDIR
exec python MY_PROJ_PATH/manage.py run_gunicorn