Ticket #6610: trac-6610.diff

django/core/servers/fastcgi.py

@@ -35 +35 @@
   maxspare=NUMBER      max number of spare processes / threads
   minspare=NUMBER      min number of spare processes / threads.
   maxchildren=NUMBER   hard limit number of processes / threads
+  debug=BOOL           whether to enable flup traceback pages (default false).
   daemonize=BOOL       whether to detach from terminal.
   pidfile=FILE         write the spawned process-id to this file.
   workdir=DIRECTORY    change to this directory when daemonizing.
@@ -72 +73 @@
     'minspare': 2,
     'maxchildren': 50,
     'maxrequests': 0,
+    'debug': False,
     'outlog': None,
     'errlog': None,
     'umask': None,
@@ -125 +127 @@
     else:
         return fastcgi_help("ERROR: Implementation must be one of prefork or thread.")
 
-    wsgi_opts['debug'] = False # Turn off flup tracebacks
+    if options["debug"] == False:
+        wsgi_opts['debug'] = False
+    elif options["debug"].lower() in ('true', 'yes', 't'):
+        wsgi_opts['debug'] = True
 
     try:
         WSGIServer = getattr(__import__('flup.' + flup_module, '', '', flup_module), 'WSGIServer')

docs/howto/deployment/fastcgi.txt

@@ -114 +114 @@
 
     ./manage.py runfcgi method=prefork socket=/home/user/mysite.sock pidfile=django.pid
 
-Run without daemonizing (backgrounding) the process (good for debugging)::
+Run without daemonizing (backgrounding) the process (good for debugging). 
+Also enable flup debug pages, this helps to track down problems with middleware::
 
-    ./manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false socket=/tmp/mysite.sock maxrequests=1
+    ./manage.py runfcgi debug=true daemonize=false socket=/tmp/mysite.sock maxrequests=1
 
 Stopping the FastCGI daemon
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