Create uWSGI Socket in other folder? - django

Question

I want to create uWsgi socket in my project folder and not in /tmp/
Here's my uWSGI config
[uwsgi]
socket = /tmp/uwsgi.sock #I want this in any other folder
#say in /home/me/Desktop/myDjangoApp/
chmod-socket = 666
processes = 1
master = true
vhost = true
no-site = true
But whenever I restart uWSGI with the socket created in my folder, it [fails].
Can't I create the uwsgi.sock in other folder?

Answer 1

I use the following uwsgi config (reduced to relevant parts):
[uwsgi]
uid = moin
gid = www-data
socket = /var/run/moin/uwsgi.sock
hook-as-root = exec:mkdir -vp /var/run/moin/; chown -v moin:www-data /var/run/moin/
Note the hook which creates the /var/run/wiki/ directory with user permissions before the server drops privileges. Call the directory whatever you want, moin was the name of my wiki engine.
On newer distros, /var/run points to a tmpfs location so that any manually created directory gets dropped after a reboot. The hook definition in this file keeps your configuration compact, compared to adding/modifying another init script.

Answer 2

Well, I found an alternative solution for the same. I created the socket in localhost
Here is my uwsgi file
[uwsgi]
uid = www-data
gid = www-data
master = 1
workers = 2
plugins = python
socket = 127.0.0.1:3100
enable-threads = true
processes = 2
pythonpath = <>
wsgi-file = <>
chdir = <>

Answer 3

unix sockets must obey to file permission schemes.
In the second config you're seting uid=www-data and gid=www-data.
The socket file must be writable by www-data and nginx must be able to read/write /tmp/uwsgi.sock
On the other hand if you find that difficult, using host:port (tcp sockets) will work too and you've seem to be able to do it like that.