uWSGI is an

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that "aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services". It is named after the

Web Server Gateway Interface The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI, pronounced ''whiskey'' or ) is a simple calling convention for web servers to forward requests to web applications or frameworks written in the Python programming language. The current version of WSGI, ...

(WSGI), which was the first plugin supported by the project. uWSGI is maintained by the Italian-based software company unbit. uwsgi (all lowercase) is the native binary protocol that uWSGI uses to communicate with other servers. uWSGI is often used in conjunction with

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s such as

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and

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, which offer direct support for uWSGI's native uwsgi protocol, to serve Python

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such as Django. For example, data may flow like this: HTTP client ↔ Nginx ↔ uWSGI ↔ Python app. uWSGI has been in maintenance mode since October 24th, 2022

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How to run uWSGI
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