gunicorn-gotcha.md

Gunicorn Gotcha

I was working on a Django application locally, with a Python virtual environment. I accidentally installed gunicorn with pip globally, outside of the virtual environment. Thinking nothing of it, I re-entered the virtual environment, installed gunicorn locally in that environment, and then tried to start the gunicorn server.

gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 project.wsgi

However, calling gunicorn at the terminal referenced the global gunicorn, not the one in the virtual environment. After a while, I finally called which gunicorn and realized my error.

I exited the Python virtual environment, called pip uninstall gunicorn and then everything worked normally.