Getting uWSGI up and running correctly

Question

I've just started with wsgi and am trying to get a simple uwsgi server up and running. I've set up a virtualenv environment and activated it. Inside lib I have a file hello.py with the contents:

def application(environ, start_response):
    status = '200 OK'
    output = 'Hello World!'

    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
                        ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
    start_response(status, response_headers)

    return [output]

And I'm running:

uwsgi --http :8000 --wsgi-file lib/hello.py --add-header "X-test: hi"

to start the server.

My problem is that the server isn't sedning the body. When I curl to localhost:8000 I can see the X-test header, so I'm definitely hitting uwsgi. Additionally, if I change "200 OK" to something else I can see that in curl as well.

I'm fairly sure I followed the tutorial correctly (it seemed pretty straightforward), can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong? Could it be that I'm using python3? I installed uwsgi through pip inside my virtualenv, if that matters at all.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '12 at 08:54

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WSGI for python3 is different, your output must be bytes not string

answered Jul 18 '12 at 08:54

roberto

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That was it thanks! For the curious, instead of `output = 'Hello World!'`, I did `output = b'Hello World!'` – Mediocre Gopher Jul 18 '12 at 18:15

Getting uWSGI up and running correctly

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