Where is the gunicorn socket located?

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hello, I followed the tutorials: Production, Scaling and Load Balancing and Proxy to create a Production Galaxy Instance.

I am trying to bind everything to the Gunicorn socket while using a Proxy with Nginx. But I do not know if I am making a mistake in the configuration files. I tried to Google the issue and consulted the Gunicorn official documentation.
What is the path to the Gunicorn supposed to be? I searched in: /etc/, /run/, /var/, /tmp/ and so on. My Galaxy instance is on a different “galaxy” user. Binding by IP on port 8080 works very well, but I am trying to bind by socket to access the server by a subdomain, like the tutorial “galaxy.example.org” while also securing with lets encrypt.

Thank you!

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Could you explain more about this part? Please also let us know which version of Galaxy you are running.

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Thanks for the reply!

What I mean is that my galaxy instance is created on a different user called “galaxy”, as instructed in the tutorials, to avoid manipulation by root. I am on version 22.05.

At the moment I am trying to somehow find or create the socket file, maybe that will solve my issues.

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In Galaxy 22.05 this would be controlled by the value of gravity.gunicorn.bind in galaxy.yml:

gravity:
  gunicorn:
    bind: localhost:8080

To set to a unix domain socket, use:

gravity:
  gunicorn:
    bind: unix:/path/to/gunicorn.sock

You can set the path to whatever makes sense in your case. In the Installing Galaxy with Ansible training we set this to /srv/galaxy/var/config/gunicorn.sock, but whether this directory makes sense for you depends on how you have deployed Galaxy.

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Wait, so I just simply set a path? Doesn’t it have to be a path to where there is a .sock file? I mean, is the socket file supposed to be automatically generated or do I just specify the path? I think this my confusion.

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Ah! Yes, you just set a path, gunicorn creates the socket on startup. This will need to match the path you specify in the nginx config, but gunicorn is what will create it.

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Well, that fixed everything. I’ve been searching like crazy for that .sock path not knowing that it is automatically generated.

My fault for being a total beginner in this area. Still, the problem is solved.

Thank you!

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No worries, glad you’ve got it working!