Gunicorn stuck at Booting worker with pid: 9293

Question

I am trying to implement nginx + django + gunicorn for my project deployment. I am taking the help of following article: http://tutos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/source/ndg.html . I followed the steps as described. Now, I am trying to start gunicorn. What am I getting at the screen is:

$ gunicorn ourcase.wsgi:application
[2016-05-19 19:24:25 +0000] [9290] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 19.5.0
[2016-05-19 19:24:25 +0000] [9290] [INFO] Listening at: http://127.0.0.1:8000 (9290)
[2016-05-19 19:24:25 +0000] [9290] [INFO] Using worker: sync
[2016-05-19 19:24:25 +0000] [9293] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 9293

Since, I am new to nginx & gunicorn, I am not sure whether the above is an error or not. I am getting nothing in error log

cat /var/log/nginx/error.log 

It prints nothing on the screen. Please help me to solve this.

Solution

That output means that the process is running. Which is what you want. You should try accessing the URL from the browser directly after running the command without pressing ctrl+c.

As a side note you can write a bash script to do this which will make it easier to add arguments to the gunicorn commands.

I have a gist that does just that. https://gist.github.com/marcusshepp/129c822e2065e20122d8

Let me know what other questions you might have and I'll add a comment.