Re: django-admin server start/stop

There is no "manage.py server" management command. There is only "manage.py runserver", which you probably know already, and which is meant only for development, not for production. For development, "manage.py runserver" works wonders, and stopping it with Ctrl+C is all you want.

For production, you don't start Django with manage.py. Instead, you use a specialized web server that can run Python programs by using the WSGI specification. The three popular such servers are gunicorn, mod_wsgi, and uwsgi. That server is going to import your mysite.wsgi.application() function and call it as needed (as specified by the WSGI specification). So you don't need to start "Django", you need to start gunicorn or mod_wsgi or uwsgi (which you configure to import your Django project).

mod_wsgi is started by the Apache web server. For gunicorn and uwsgi, you need to start them using systemd or supervisor or a similar daemon manager, which will take care of its pids and everything else you need.

Antonis Christofides  http://djangodeployment.com

On 2016-11-26 09:06, anatoly techtonik wrote:

Is there a plugin that allows me to start and stop django server from command line?

Suppose I have multiple sites running at the same time, so going `ps aux` to manually inspect which site to kill is a time stealer. I expect that `manage.py server stop` stop all servers that were run for the current development project.

    manage.py server stop    -- stop dev server(s) run for current project

Also, `server start` should store pid somewhere, so that it could be checked and killed. What is the best place to store that?

    manage.py server start    -- start django server for current project in foreground

    options:
      -b, --background     -- run server in background
      --autoport              -- select port automatically
      --dump                  -- dump server parameters (port, pid, etc) in JSON format (disables other stdout output)


$ manage server start --dump
{
  'addr: 127.0.0.1,
  'port': 8080,
  'pid': 13224,
  'pidfile': '/tmp/django-project1`
}


Automatic port selection is needed if you want to preview another branch with a temporary copy of current project. Maybe there is a plugin for branch testing/preview too that can help me?

Thanks.

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