How to run Python server without command prompt

Question

I'm developing some Python project with Django. When we render the Python/Django application, we need to open the command prompt and type in python manage.py runserver. That's ok on for the development server. But for production, it looks funny. Is there anyway to run the Python/Django project without opening the command prompt?

• Jon Clements: You wouldn't do that for production - you'd have it running on some kind of cron/supervisor restart and behind a proper server. Have you looked at deployment? djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter12.html or various other resources for instance?

Answer 1

The deployment section of the documentation details steps to configure servers to run django in production.

runserver is to be used strictly for development and should never be used in production.

• DRPK: why should never be used ...? may you explain that?

Answer 2

You run the runserver command only when you develop. After you deploy, the client does not need to run python manage.py runserver command. Calling the url will execute the required view. So it need not be a concern

Answer 3

If you are using Linux I wrote a pretty, pretty basic script, which I am always using when I don't want to call this command.

Note: You really just should use the "runserver" for developing :)

#!/bin/bash
#Of course change "IP-Address" to your current IP-Address and the "Port" to your port.
#ifconfig to get your IP-Address
python manage.py runserver IP-Address:Port

just name it runserver.sh and execute it like this in your terminal:

./runserver.sh