I’ve just added another Django site to my VDS using FCGI and was looking for an init script to start and stop them when I stumbled across this. I had to do a bit of fiddling to get it working with Debian (I think there was possibly a different version of start-stop-daemon, or something).
This is what I came up with and it seems to be working pretty well for me.
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: FastCGI servers for Django
# Required-Start: networking
# Required-Stop: networking
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start FastCGI servers with Django.
# Description: Django, in order to operate with FastCGI, must be started
# in a very specific way with manage.py. This must be done
# for each DJango web server that has to run.
### END INIT INFO
#
# Author: Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
# <guillermo.fernandez.castellanos AT gmail.com>.
#
# Version: @(#)fastcgi 0.1 11-Jan-2007 guillermo.fernandez.castellanos AT gmail.com
#
# Altered by David Reynolds for Debian Stable <david AT reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
#### SERVER SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION
export PYTHONPATH=/var/www/django/trunk/:/var/www/django/
DJANGO_SITES="mysite stmarys"
SITES_PATH=/var/www/django
RUNFILES_PATH=$SITES_PATH/run
HOST=127.0.0.1
PORT_START=3033
RUN_AS=www-data
#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING AFTER THIS LINE!
set -e
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="FastCGI servers"
NAME=$0
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
#
# Function that starts the daemon/service.
#
d_start()
{
# Starting all Django FastCGI processes
PORT=$PORT_START
for SITE in $DJANGO_SITES
do
echo -n ", $SITE"
if [ -f $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid ]; then
echo -n " already running"
else
start-stop-daemon --start \
--exec /usr/bin/python $SITES_PATH/$SITE/manage.py runfcgi method=threaded \
host=$HOST port=$PORT pidfile=$RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid --pidfile $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid
chmod 400 $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid
fi
let "PORT = $PORT + 1"
done
}
#
# Function that stops the daemon/service.
#
d_stop() {
# Killing all Django FastCGI processes running
for SITE in $DJANGO_SITES
do
echo -n ", $SITE"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid \
|| echo -n " not running"
if [ -f $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid ]; then
rm $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid
fi
done
}
ACTION="$1"
case "$ACTION" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
d_start
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
d_stop
echo "."
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
d_stop
sleep 1
d_start
echo "."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
exit 0