I've been using Django a lot recently and had this startup script that I use and thought others might find useful :)

 

#!/bin/sh

ADDRESS='127.0.0.1'
PYTHON="/opt/django/bin/python"
GUNICORN="/opt/django/bin/gunicorn_django"
PROJECTLOC="/opt/django/project"
MANAGELOC="$PROJECTLOC/manage.py"
DEFAULT_ARGS="--workers=3 --daemon --bind=$ADDRESS:"
BASE_CMD="$GUNICORN $DEFAULT_ARGS"

SERVER1_PORT='8200'
SERVER1_PID="$PROJECTLOC/$SERVER1_PORT.pid"
SERVER2_PORT='8201'
SERVER2_PID="$PROJECTLOC/$SERVER2_PORT.pid"

start_server () {
  if [ -f $1 ]; then
    #pid exists, check if running
    if [ "$(ps -p `cat $1` | wc -l)" -gt 1 ]; then
       echo "Server already running on ${ADDRESS}:${2}"
       return
    fi
  fi
  cd $PROJECTLOC
  echo "starting ${ADDRESS}:${2}"
  $BASE_CMD$2 --pid=$1
}

stop_server (){
  if [ -f $1 ] && [ "$(ps -p `cat $1` | wc -l)" -gt 1 ]; then
    echo "stopping server ${ADDRESS}:${2}"
    kill -9 `cat $1`
    rm $1
  else 
    if [ -f $1 ]; then
      echo "server ${ADDRESS}:${2} not running"
    else
      echo "No pid file found for server ${ADDRESS}:${2}"
    fi
  fi
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  start_server $SERVER1_PID $SERVER1_PORT 
  start_server $SERVER2_PID $SERVER2_PORT
  ;;
'stop')
  stop_server $SERVER1_PID $SERVER1_PORT
  stop_server $SERVER2_PID $SERVER2_PORT
  ;;
'restart')
  stop_server $SERVER1_PID $SERVER1_PORT
  sleep 2
  start_server $SERVER1_PID $SERVER1_PORT
  sleep 2
  stop_server $SERVER2_PID $SERVER2_PORT
  sleep 2
  start_server $SERVER2_PID $SERVER2_PORT
  ;;
*)
  echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart }"
  ;;
esac

exit 0

Just make sure to fill in all the variables to your liking.

Adding the script

This works for ubuntu at least...

  1. Place the script in the file /etc/init.d/gunicorn or whatever you'd like to call it
  2. make it executable 
    chmod +x /etc/init.d/gunicorn
  3. And finally, wire it up 
     update-rc.d gunicorn defaults