Run supervisor in virtual environment

Question

I installed supervisor and gunicorn in my virtual environment (venv).

I am using this tutorial: https://realpython.com/blog/python/kickstarting-flask-on-ubuntu-setup-and-deployment/

I'm confused as to where I should be creating the config file for supervisor as the default etc/supervisor won't apply to me.

The supervisorctl file is in the directory:

/home/giri/venv/py2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/supervisor

I noticed this line in the supervisorctl file:

Options:
-c/--configuration -- configuration file path (default /etc/supervisord.conf)

Do I need to manually set this flag each time I run the supervisorctl script or is there another way?

Thanks

Answer 1

As found in the docs (http://supervisord.org/configuration.html):

The Supervisor configuration file is conventionally named supervisord.conf. It is used by both supervisord and supervisorctl. If either application is started without the -c option (the option which is used to tell the application the configuration filename explicitly), the application will look for a file named supervisord.conf within the following locations, in the specified order. It will use the first file it finds.

• $CWD/supervisord.conf
• $CWD/etc/supervisord.conf
• /etc/supervisord.conf

So put the supervisor.conf in your current working directory and you're fine.