Hi everyone,
I’m trying to follow this tutorial on hosting my django app: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04#prerequisites-and-goals
I’m on the step “Check for the Gunicorn Socket File” - everything before that has been very successful. However, when I try this step, I just get an unhelpful error message.
Here is my /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service file:
[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
User=arya
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/arya/measuring_polyphony_django
ExecStart=/home/arya/envs/polyphonynev/bin/gunicorn --access-logfile - --workers 3 --bind unix:/home/arya/measuring_polyphony_django/measuring_polyphony.sock measuring_polyphony.wsgi:application
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Here’s the message I get when I run sudo systemctl status gunicorn
arya@polyphony:~$ sudo systemctl status gunicorn
● gunicorn.service - gunicorn daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2017-05-27 16:04:09 UTC; 13min ago
Main PID: 9039 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: Started gunicorn daemon.
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: gunicorn.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: gunicorn.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: gunicorn.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
There is no measuring_polyphony.sock file either.
Here’s what sudo journalctl -u gunicorn says:
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: Started gunicorn daemon.
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: gunicorn.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: gunicorn.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 27 16:04:09 polyphony systemd[1]: gunicorn.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
So not much more helpful than the previous command. To go through all the things that were listed as could go wrong in the guide:
- The project files are owned by the “arya” user
- The WorkingDirectory is definitely the home directory for my django project
arya@polyphony:~$ ls /home/arya/measuring_polyphony_django
importer.py measuring.csv media my_project_visualized.png schema.png static viewer
manage.py measuring_polyphony mei_files __pycache__ secrets.py templates
3a. The path to Gunicorn is the correct one for my virtualenv (and the one I used to test gunicorn earlier in the tutorial)
arya@polyphony:~$ source ~/envs/polyphonynev/bin/activate
(polyphonynev) arya@polyphony:~$ which gunicorn
/home/arya/envs/polyphonynev/bin/gunicorn
3b. The directory in the --bind option is definitely able to be created (I tested by running nano and saving a random file to the directory)
3c. The “measuring_polyphony.wsgi” setting definitely translates to this folder in the WORKING_DIRECTORY
(polyphonynev) arya@polyphony:~/measuring_polyphony_django$ ls measuring_polyphony/wsgi.py
measuring_polyphony/wsgi.py
Does anyone else see what could be wrong with this? Thank you!
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I was also experiencing the same issue. I changed the code User=arya to User=root
I think the project files are owned by the root user instead of a sudo user So try changing your service file to something like this:
[Service]
User=root
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/root/measuring_polyphony_django
ExecStart=/root/envs/polyphonynev/bin/gunicorn --access-logfile - --workers 3 --bind unix:/root/measuring_polyphony_django/measuring_polyphony.sock measuring_polyphony.wsgi:application
I was also experiencing the same issue; added --log-level debug to ExecStart and was able to find that the environment variables weren’t being loaded, added EnvironmentFile=path\to\.env to the [Service] section and was able to fix the problem.
THANK YOU SOO MUCH I FOLLOW THE GUIDE AS YOU SAID.!!!
hey, i do this all but i can’t get result exit-code, it show “active:failed”, what I do
it solved with change owner user to root in /systemd/gunicorn/
If you’re getting status=203/EXEC chances are you haven’t ran pip install gunicorn in your virtualenv yet. You can check by seeing if yourvenv/bin/gunicorn exists or my running pip show gunicorn in your virtual environment.
Thank you so much for the guide,it has really helped me
I Encountered same problem that consumed around 2hr to resolve
Here are a few things I noted with gunicorn and virtual environments
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gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 myproject.wsgiwill run despite gunicorn installation descripacies -
Gurnicon service can and will only run from a virtual environment
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Avoid using
python -m venv myprojectand adoptpython virtualenv -p python3 myproject`` if running python-3.x orpython virtualenv myproject``` if running python-2.x -
Once you have created and activated
myprojectvirtual wrapper runpip install django gunicorn psycopg2as is. Incase of dependancy errors, try other fixes than breaking the line of code. -
Countercheck
gunicornfile is created under/path/to/myproject_virtualwrapper/bin/*. If this file is not created here Gurnicorn was installed elsewhere implying service run error. -
If confirmed gurnicorn exists at
/path/to/myproject_virtualwrapper/bin/*, proceed with other configurations as outlined here
try let your gunicorn user and group own the usr folder…
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This isn’t a formal solution but my problem came from not having all of the requisite packages installed in my virtualenv
I have this same issue!