---
title: "How to use Django with Gunicorn"
version: 1.9
locale: en
source: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn/
canonical: https://djangodocs.dev/en/1.9/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn/
---
# How to use Django with Gunicorn

[Gunicorn](http://gunicorn.org/) (‘Green Unicorn’) is a pure-Python WSGI server for UNIX. It has no
dependencies and is easy to install and use.

## Installing Gunicorn

Installing gunicorn is as easy as `pip install gunicorn`. For more
details, see the [gunicorn documentation](http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/install.html).

## Running Django in Gunicorn as a generic WSGI application

When Gunicorn is installed, a `gunicorn` command is available which starts
the Gunicorn server process. At its simplest, gunicorn just needs to be called
with the location of a module containing a WSGI application object named
application. So for a typical Django project, invoking gunicorn would look
like:

```bash
gunicorn myproject.wsgi
```

This will start one process running one thread listening on `127.0.0.1:8000`.
It requires that your project be on the Python path; the simplest way to ensure
that is to run this command from the same directory as your `manage.py` file.

See Gunicorn’s [deployment documentation](http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/deploy.html) for additional tips.