gistfile1.sh

#! /bin/bash
# Author:  Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
#          <guillermo.fernandez.castellanos AT gmail.com>
#
# Altered by David Reynolds for Debian Stable <david AT reynoldsfamily.org.uk>

# Further altered by Michael Whalen <michael at whalesalad.com>
#
# In this example, my django projects are stored in /usr/local
# one is named siteone and the other is named sitetwo. 
#
# I previously used to get the "let: command not exist" type of error with this
# script, so I fixed it. 

#### SERVER SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION
#export PYTHONPATH=/var/www/django/trunk/:/var/www/django/
DJANGO_SITES="siteone sitetwo"
SITES_PATH=/usr/local
RUNFILES_PATH=/var/run/fastcgi
HOST=127.0.0.1
PORT_START=3033
RUN_AS=www-data
#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING AFTER THIS LINE!

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="FastCGI servers"
NAME=$0
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

#
#       Function that starts the daemon/service.
#
d_start()
{
    # Starting all Django FastCGI processes
    PORT=$PORT_START
    for SITE in $DJANGO_SITES
    do
        echo -n ", $SITE"
        if [ -f $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid ]; then
            echo -n " already running"
        else
            start-stop-daemon --start \
            --exec /usr/bin/python $SITES_PATH/$SITE/manage.py runfcgi method=threaded \
            host=$HOST port=$PORT pidfile=$RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid --pidfile $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid
            chmod 400 $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid
        fi
        let PORT++
    done
}

#
#       Function that stops the daemon/service.
#
d_stop() {
    # Killing all Django FastCGI processes running
    for SITE in $DJANGO_SITES
    do
        echo -n ", $SITE"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid \
                          || echo -n " not running"
        if [ -f $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid ]; then
           rm $RUNFILES_PATH/$SITE.pid
        fi
    done
}

ACTION="$1"
case "$ACTION" in
    start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        d_start
        echo "."
        ;;

    stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
        d_stop
        echo "."
        ;;

    restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
        d_stop
        sleep 1
        d_start
        echo "."
        ;;

    *)
        echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

exit 0