Question

.sock file not generating for Django application

Posted on December 10, 2022
DigitalOcean Droplets Django
Asked by 24326124313024786f783749326777

Here is the hierarchy of the droplet: hierarchy Here is the gunicorn.service file: file

When I run the following commands, no .sock file is generated:

sudo systemctl start gunicorn sudo systemctl enable gunicorn

Tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04#create-and-configure-a-new-django-project

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• December 15, 2022

Hi there,

I would recommend following the troubleshooting steps form the tutorial that you’ve shared. Then feel free to share the output of the commands here.

Mainly the following steps:

Check the status of the process to find out whether it was able to start:

sudo systemctl status gunicorn

If the systemctl status command indicated that an error occurred or if you do not find the myproject.sock file in the directory, it’s an indication that Gunicorn was not able to start correctly.
Check the Gunicorn process logs by typing:

sudo journalctl -u gunicorn

Take a look at the messages in the logs to find out where Gunicorn ran into problems. There are many reasons that you may have run into problems, but often, if Gunicorn was unable to create the socket file, it is for one of these reasons:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04#check-for-the-gunicorn-socket-file

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby