Setting Up Python and Supervisor on CentOS

CentOS default repository is very limited, and even if you install EPEL you will get old packages, in my case I needed to install Supervisor to manage my Django application, after trying to do it manually and through EPEL I ended up with the following setup.

Install Needed Package

sudo yum install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install supervisor

Setup Supervisor

We’ve already installed “Supervisor” globally, but we need to create its configuration, luckily it comes with default config:

echo_supervisord_conf > supervisord.conf
sudo cp supervisord.conf /etc/supervisord.conf
sudo mkdir /etc/supervisord.d/
sudo vi /etc/supervisord.conf
:
[include]
files = /etc/supervisord.d/*.conf
:

Next we need to set “Supervisor” to run automatically every time you restart your machine, we need to create /etc/rc.d/init.d/supervisord with the following content:

sudo vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/supervisord
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/supervisord
#
# Supervisor is a client/server system that
# allows its users to monitor and control a
# number of processes on UNIX-like operating
# systems.
#
# chkconfig: - 64 36
# description: Supervisor Server
# processname: supervisord

# Source init functions
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

prog="supervisord"

prefix="/usr/"
exec_prefix="${prefix}"
prog_bin="${exec_prefix}/bin/supervisord"
PIDFILE="/var/run/$prog.pid"

start()
{
      echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
      daemon $prog_bin --pidfile $PIDFILE
      [ -f $PIDFILE ] && success $"$prog startup" || failure $"$prog startup"
      echo
}

stop()
{
      echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
      [ -f $PIDFILE ] && killproc $prog || success $"$prog shutdown"
      echo
}

case "$1" in

start)
  start
;;

stop)
  stop
;;

status)
      status $prog
;;

restart)
  stop
  start
;;

*)
  echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
;;

esac

Then make sure CentOS knows about it:

sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/supervisord
sudo chkconfig --add supervisord
sudo chkconfig supervisord on
sudo service supervisord start

Sample Supervisor App

Here is a sample of Django App to be controlled and monitored by Supervisor, just put it:

sudo vi /etc/supervisord.d/my_django_cms.conf
[program:my_django_cms]
directory=/var/www/dashboard/www
command=/home/rayed/.virtualenvs/dev/bin/gunicorn apps.wsgi:application -b 127.0.0.1:8080 --workers 8 --max-requests 1000
# UNIX Socket version (better with Nginx)
#command=/home/rayed/.virtualenvs/dev/bin/gunicorn apps.wsgi:application -b unix:/tmp/my_django_cms.sock --workers 8  --max-requests 1000
environment=DJANGO_ENV="prod"
user=rayed
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=True

After that:

sudo supervisorctl add my_django_cms
sudo supervisorctl start my_django_cms

Setting Apache to Proxy to Gunicorn

To add virtual host to Apache that forward dynamic content to Gunicorn:

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/my_django_cms.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName dj.example.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/my_django_cms/www
    RewriteEngine on
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    RewriteCond $1 !^/(favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|media|static)/
    RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:8000$1 [P]
    <Proxy *>
            Order deny,allow
            Allow from all
            Allow from localhost
    </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

If you have SELinux enabled you might need to apply the following command:

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

If you have issues accessing your statics files from Apache it might be SELinux also:

restorecon -Rv /var/www/my_django_cms/

• Centos
• Django
• Python