Nginx, uWSGI, and web.py…and my new job
This past week I started a new job at Local Projects. I'm really excited about working with all the talented people there. One of the fun things about the job so far is that I'm doing a bunch of Python development with web.py. It's a great minimal web framework and working with Python has been great as well.
One of the things I wanted to do this weekend was to figure out how to run a web.py app with nginx and uWSGI. It took me ages to figure it out, but I finally got a working setup. This post is mostly to document the few things that made the difference.
First thing to note is that I did this all on a micro instance of Ubuntu 11.04 on EC2 (ami-1aad5273). Second, I installed the lastest versions of nginx and uWSGI from source. The following gist lists examples of the files I used to get this running. I should note that the config and .sh files are intended for running one server and one web.py application.