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uWSGI Basic Django Setup

Here are two basic examples of almost the same uWSGI configuration to run a Django project; one is configured via an ini configuration file and the other is configured via a command line argument. This does not represent a production-ready example, but can be used as a starting point for the configuration. Setup for this example: # create dir for virtualenv and activate mkdir envs/ virtualenv envs/runrun/ . ./envs/runrun/bin/activate # create dir for project codebase mkdir proj/ # install some django deps pip install django uwsgi whitenose # create a new django project cd proj/ django-admin startproject runrun cd runrun/ # Add to or modify django settings.py to setup static file serving with Whitenoise. # Note: for prod environments, staticfiles can be served via Nginx. # settings.py  MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [     ....     'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware', ] STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles') STATICFILES_STORAGE =