Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

uWSGI and SCGI

Before reading the rest of the chapter, you should know that Nginx offers two other CGI-derived module implementations:

• The uWSGI module allows Nginx to communicate with applications through the uwsgi protocol, itself derived from Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI). The most commonly used (the unique) server implementing the uwsgi protocol is the unoriginally named uWSGI server. Its latest documentation can be found at http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. This module will prove useful to Python adepts, seeing as the uWSGI project was designed mainly for Python applications.
• SCGI, which stands for Simple Common Gateway Interface, is a variant of the CGI protocol, much like FastCGI. Younger than FastCGI since its specification ...