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Gunicorn
Original author(s)Benoit Chesneau
Developer(s)Gunicorn Developers
Initial release20 February 2010; 14 years ago (2010-02-20)
Stable release
19.7.1 / March 21, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-21)[1]
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb server
LicenseMIT License
Websitewww.gunicorn.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Gunicorn "Green Unicorn" is a Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) HTTP server. It is a pre-fork worker model, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with a number of web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources and fairly fast.[2]

Features

  • Natively supports WSGI, web2py, Django and Paster
  • Automatic worker process management
  • Simple Python configuration
  • Multiple worker configurations
  • Various server hooks for extensibility
  • Compatible with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Releases - benoitc/gunicorn". Retrieved 12 April 2017 – via GitHub.
  2. ^ Gunicorn-Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
  3. ^ Gunicorn 19.3 Documentation: Requirements

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