Overview

This section describes various real-life situations and issues that you may experience with Unit.

How-to guides

• Unit in Docker : Configure a standalone Unit or a Unit-run app in a Docker container.
• Building from source : Build Unit and its language modules from source code.
• Unit in Ansible : Use a third-party Ansible collection to automate Unit deployment.
• NGINX integration : Front or secure Unit with NGINX.
• TLS with Certbot : Use EFF’s Certbot with Unit to simplify certificate manipulation.
• Working with language modules : Build new modules or prepare custom packages for Unit.
• App samples : Reuse sample app configurations for all languages supported by Unit.
• Security checklist : Recommendations and considerations for hardening Unit.
• Walkthrough : Follow an end-to-end guide to application configuration in Unit.

Frameworks

With Unit, you can configure a diverse range of applications based on the following frameworks:

• Bottle
• CakePHP
• Catalyst
• CodeIgniter
• Django
• DjangoChannels
• Express
• Falcon
• FastAPI
• Flask
• Guillotina
• Koa
• Laravel
• Lumen
• Pyramid
• Quart
• Responder
• Rails
• Sanic
• SpringBoot
• Starlette
• Symfony
• Yii
• Zope

Applications

You can also make use of detailed setup instructions for popular web apps such as:

• Apollo
• Bugzilla
• Datasette
• DokuWiki
• Drupal
• Grafana
• Jira
• Joomla
• Mailman
• Matomo
• MediaWiki
• Mercurial
• MODX
• Moin
• Nextcloud
• OpenGrok
• phpBB
• phpMyAdmin
• Plone
• Redmine
• ReviewBoard
• Roundcube
• Trac
• WordPress

If you are interested in a specific use case not yet listed here, please post a feature request on GitHub.

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