Can't remember where, but I read uWSGI can reload itself like Django development server when a project script is modified. I can't find that in the docs, nor in the internets. How can I do this?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my working machines and Debian Squeeze on stage & production server, Django 1.4 and uWSGI 1.2.
I'm looking for an overly simplified answer to the following question. I'm trying to build a foundational understanding of how Nginx works alongside something like Gunicorn.
Do I need both Nginx and something like Gunicorn to deploy Django apps on Nginx?
If so, what actually handles the HTTP requests?
Ps. I don't want to use Apache and mod_wsgi!
I have a Django site running on Gunicorn with a reverse proxy through Nginx. Isn't Nginx just an extra unnecessary overhead? How does adding that on top of Gunicorn help?
I'd like to use Lighttpd in production for serving Django apps but i see that these days Nginx is more and more popular. Why is that? I'm aware that in the past Lighttpd had memory leaks but isn't this fixed now? They do have active developers that fix this kind of things don't they?
Is there any reason i should go with Nginx instead of Lighty? I know that nginx is a great server but is it really that good and better than lighty?
Using my Django app, I'm able to read from the database just fine. When the application didn't have permission to access the file, it gave me this error:
attempt to write a readonly database
Which made sense. So I edited the permissions on the file, so that the Apache process had write permissions. However, instead of it being able to write, I get this cryptic error:
unable to open database file
If it's useful, here's the entire output:
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://home-sv-1/hellodjango1/polls/1/vote/
Exception Type: OperationalError
Exception Value:
unable to open database file
Exception Location: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py in execute, line 193
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.5.2
Python Path: ['/var/www', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/gtk-2.0']
Server time: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:06:08 -0500
Let me know if a stack trace is necessary.