From f26e5e6c666d8f60c42230c3dfc31618b54a1e90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Beitey Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:18:54 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add details about uWSGI as WSGI server --- docs/scenarios/web.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/scenarios/web.rst b/docs/scenarios/web.rst index d2178f10e..d43ff0ee6 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/web.rst +++ b/docs/scenarios/web.rst @@ -156,6 +156,25 @@ setup for Nginx + Gunicorn can be found in the .. _uwsgi-ref: +uWSGI +----- + +`uWSGI `_ is a full stack for building +hosting services. In addition to process management, process monitoring, +and other functionality, uWSGI acts as an application server for various +programming languages and protocols - including Python and WSGI. uWSGI can +either be run as a stand-alone web router, or be run behind a full web +server (such as Nginx or Apache). In the latter case, a web server can +configure uWSGI and an application's operation over the +`uwsgi `_ +protocol. uWSGI's web server support allows for dynamically configuring +Python, passing environment variables and further tuning. For full details, +see `uWSGI magic +variables `_. + + +.. _server-best-practices-ref: + Server Best Practices :::::::::::::::::::::