Nginx – Run Django as Windows Service

You have at least three options. I have presented them in order of usage preference.

Method 1 - You can use the SC tool (Sc.exe) included in the Resource Kit. (included with Windows 7/8)

Open a Command Prompt and enter

sc delete <service-name>

Tool help snippet follows:

DESCRIPTION:
        SC is a command line program used for communicating with the
        NT Service Controller and services.

delete----------Deletes a service (from the registry).

Method 2 - use delserv

Download and use delserv command line utility. This is a legacy tool developed for Windows 2000. In current Window XP boxes this was superseded by sc described in method 1.

Method 3 - manually delete registry entries (Note that this backfires in Windows 7/8)

Windows services are registered under the following registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Search for the sub-key with the service name under referred key and delete it. (and you might need to restart to remove completely the service from the Services list)

It depends on what you mean by site, and what your Django configurations look like.

Each Django settings.py defines one and only one database, one and only one urls.py tree.

Each Django has one settings.py -- one database -- one urls.py tree.

If each site has a distinct database, they need distinct settings.py and you'd need a distinct fastcgi instance.

If all sites a supported by a single database, with a single settings.py, then you can squeeze them all out of a single fastcgi instance.

Note that Django's urls.py handler mostly ignores the hostname and port number in the url parsing in the request. However, if you include the Sites model, you can have the virtual host name become part of request processing.