After pip installing uWSGI there's no /etc/uwsgi/ directory - how can I use apps-enabled?

Question

I've been using apt-get install uwsgi to install uWSGI for my Django application. Today, I realized I needed a feature that's not available until uWSGI 1.1, and Ubuntu 12.04.1 doesn't have anything after 1.0.x, at least according to my apt-get install uwsgi=1.1 attempt. So, I used:

pip install http://projects.unbit.it/downloads/uwsgi-lts.tar.gz

After doing so, I get a message prescribing the use of /usr/local/bin/uwsgi to launch the program. I'm not a guru when it comes to compiling from source, but my understanding is that when you do so, nothing will be changed in the /etc/ directory. Is this correct? If not, why don't I have a /etc/uwsgi/ directory and, more specifically, a /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/ directory? Should I simply create the directories when installing uWSGI from source? I was hesitant to do so, considering there is no mention of this in the docs (I don't want something that accidentally works, etc.).

Answer 1

Sorry for this very late reply, but maybe this will help people who'll find this answer in the future:

To get /etc/uwsgi etc, you need to install the uwsgi package from Debian or Ubuntu (whatever you are using) by running aptitutde install uwsgi . However this will by default probably install an ancient version of uwsgi! The uwsgi binary is placed in /usr/bin/uwsgi when installing uwsgi this way.

To get the latest version, also install uwsgi using pip using pip install -U uwsgi , which (on my Ubuntu system at least) will put the uwsgi binary in /usr/local/bin/uwsgi then go do the following:

cd /usr/bin/

mv uwsgi uwsgi-old

ln -s /usr/local/bin/uwsgi uwsgi

Alternatively: edit the uwsgi init script and edit the DAEMON="/usr/bin/uwsgi" appropriately.

Et voila: "debianism" (full init scripts, etc) and the latest uwsgi binary!

Answer 2

/etc/uwsgi and friends is a 'debianism'. The uWSGI project is all about the sysadmin taste, so if you like the /etc/uwsgi approach just create the directory, drop config files in it and start the uWSGI Emperor to manage instances.