# Django 1.8.18.dev20170123152445 documentation

# How to use Django with Gunicorn

Gunicorn (‘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.

## 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:

    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 for additional tips.