Debian init script for running New Relic Python wrapper w/ uWSGI + Virtualenv

uwsgi

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          uwsgi
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: uwsgi wrapped by new relic
# Description:       Support for uwsgi with new relic and virtualenv
### END INIT INFO

# Quick start-stop-daemon example, derived from Debian /etc/init.d/ssh
set -e

# Specify username. Run command under user's UID
USER=www-data

#This is the command to be run, give the full pathname
NAME=uwsgi
DAEMON=/home/$USER/.virtualenvs/myvirtualenv/bin/newrelic-admin
DAEMON_OPTS="run-program /home/$USER/.virtualenvs/myvirtualenv/bin/uwsgi --ini /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/uwsgi.ini"

# New Relic Settings
NR_CONFIG_FILE=/var/www/myproject/newrelic.ini
NR_STARTUP_DEBUG=true

export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/usr/sbin:/sbin"

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting daemon: "$NAME
        export NEW_RELIC_CONFIG_FILE=$NR_CONFIG_FILE
        export NEW_RELIC_STARTUP_DEBUG=$NR_STARTUP_DEBUG
		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "."
	;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping daemon: "$NAME
		start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --chuid $USER --oknodo --signal 9
        echo "."
	;;
  restart)
        echo -n "Restarting daemon: "$NAME

		start-stop-daemon --stop --chuid $USER --oknodo --signal 9 --retry 30
		start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
		echo "."
	;;

  *)
	echo "Usage: "$1" {start|stop|restart}"
	exit 1
esac

exit 0

A few notes:

• uWSGI must be installed within virtualenv (pip install uwsgi)
• If you had plugin = python in your uwsgi.ini file, comment it out.
• Make sure to use module = <module_name>.wsgi:application (not module = django.core.wsgi:get_wsgi_application()) in uwsgi.ini