any tutorial to set up nginx+ uwsgi to serve pylons apps?

Question

Currently I am using nginx to reverse proxy paster, to server Mediacore (a Pylons app). However, this configuration fails when I try to submit a video. I particualrly try to avoid fat appache, which is the official Mediacore recommendation. In a famous "benchmark of python webservers" I've seen that uwsgi has amazing performance but it is rather newcommer. So I could not find any good tutorial for it which is both comprehensive and noob-friendly. So I I appreciate if you could refere me to such guide to set up any of the high-performance python webservers. Thanks in advance for your hints.

Answer 1

Deploying pylons apps is very easy on uWSGI. Simply add this section to your deployment.ini

[uwsgi]
master = 1
processes = 4
socket = :3031
home = <venv>

Substitute <venv> with the full path of your virtualenv and eventually change the socket port to whatever you want/need

Now go to nginx.conf and modify it to something like this:

location / {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3031;
}

Obviously set the uwsgi_pass to the right port of the uWSGI socket

Now start uwsgi

uwsgi --ini-paste <path>

Where <path> is the full path of the deployment.ini file

If you are on a big server you can increse the number of processes too