How use Django with Tornado web server ?

Question

How do I use Django with the Tornado web server?

Answer 1

Both Tornado and Django are webserver, they allow you to write pages using Python and both support templates. To mix those together you need something to direct certain http request to Tornado and some to Django. I use Nginx for this and it works really nice. In the Nginx config you could now use proxy_pass to direct you calls like this:

location /comet {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8081;
}

location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
}

You could also config your proxy to use more than one Tornado server to share the load (Tornado is single threaded and should be run one instance/core).

So to get started with Tornado I suggest that you start with some of the demos that comes with it, in you case I would study the chat example. You could easily rip out the OpenID stuff and concentrate on the comet stuff.