uWSGI with Cherokee: first steps

Question

Has anyone tried using uWSGI with Cherokee? Can you share your experiences and what documents you relied upon the most? I am trying to get started from the documentation on both (uWSGI and Cherokee) websites. Nothing works yet. I am using Ubuntu 10.04.

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Edit: To clarify, Cherokee has been working fine. I am getting the error message:

uWSGI Error, wsgi application not found

So something must be wrong with my configurations. Or maybe my application.

Answer 1

Yep, I just recently set this up in Ubuntu Lucid for a Pylons app.

First, I grabbed the latest cherokee from the team PPA. https://launchpad.net/~cherokee-webserver/+archive/ppa

Next I installed the uwsgi latest into my virtualenv my app lives in via Pip which the uwsgi docs walk you through. http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Install

My app was already deployed via mod_wsgi so I was looking to reuse my .wsgi file. I ran into an issue getting the syntax for the uwsgi call right so I got some great help on their mailing list: http://lists.unbit.it/pipermail/uwsgi/2010-June/000347.html

So I went through the docs in the cherokee cookbook and replaced the uwsgi line with a tweaked version of what was replied in my mailing list question.

It works pretty sweet and almost outperformed mod_wsgi 2x in testing hits to a simple pylons app served page.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I got cherokee + uwsgi + django running on lucid. It was a little tricky getting going (figuring out how to point uwsgi to the wsgi file was the hardest part for me, too), but I'm quite happy with the results. I documented the steps I took at http://blog.swwomm.com/2010/06/cherokee-django.html.

Answer 3

There seems to be an issue with the 'make' method of installation on the uwsgi docs. Use 'python uwsgiconfig.py --build' instead. That worked for me. Cherokee, Django running on Ubuntu 10.10.