# Including WSGI - Flask, Django, others

You can mount WSGI applications as you saw with [Sub Applications - Mounts](sub-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, [Behind a Proxy](behind-a-proxy.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

For that, you can use the `WSGIMiddleware` and use it to wrap your WSGI application, for example, Flask, Django, etc.

## Using `WSGIMiddleware`

You need to import `WSGIMiddleware`.

COPY ./requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt

RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r /app/requirements.txt

COPY ./app /app
```

### Bigger Applications

If you followed the section about creating [Bigger Applications with Multiple Files](../tutorial/bigger-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, your `Dockerfile` might instead look like:

```Dockerfile hl_lines="7"
FROM tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi:python3.9

And the `items_per_user` would keep its default value of `50`.

## Settings in another module

You could put those settings in another module file as you saw in [Bigger Applications - Multiple Files](../tutorial/bigger-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

For example, you could have a file `config.py` with:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/settings/app01/config.py!}
```

"""FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""

__version__ = "0.111.0"

from starlette import status as status

from .applications import FastAPI as FastAPI
from .background import BackgroundTasks as BackgroundTasks
from .datastructures import UploadFile as UploadFile
from .exceptions import HTTPException as HTTPException
from .exceptions import WebSocketException as WebSocketException

```Python hl_lines="9"
{!../../../docs_src/behind_a_proxy/tutorial004.py!}
```

and then it won't include it in the OpenAPI schema.

## Mounting a sub-application

If you need to mount a sub-application (as described in [Sub Applications - Mounts](sub-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}) while also using a proxy with `root_path`, you can do it normally, as you would expect.

      - tutorial/security/simple-oauth2.md
      - tutorial/security/oauth2-jwt.md
    - tutorial/middleware.md
    - tutorial/cors.md
    - tutorial/sql-databases.md
    - tutorial/bigger-applications.md
    - tutorial/background-tasks.md
    - tutorial/metadata.md
    - tutorial/static-files.md
    - tutorial/testing.md
    - tutorial/debugging.md
  - Advanced User Guide:
    - advanced/index.md

- Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) – Defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an
  extended version of SSH 2.0, allowing file transfer over SSH and for use with Transport Layer
  Security (TLS) and VPN applications.

- File Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS (FTPS) – Encrypted FTP communication via TLS certificates.

- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) – Defined by RFC114 originally, and replaced by RFC765 and RFC959

The client will get a **500 Internal Server Error** for that request, but the application will continue working for the next requests instead of just crashing completely.

### Bigger Errors - Crashes

Nevertheless, there might be cases where we write some code that **crashes the entire application** making Uvicorn and Python crash. 💥

 *
 * The task runner is also responsible for releasing held threads when the library is unloaded.
 * This is for the benefit of container environments that implement code unloading.
 *
 * Most applications should share a process-wide [TaskRunner] and use queues for per-client work.
 */
class TaskRunner(
  val backend: Backend,
  internal val logger: Logger = TaskRunner.logger,
) {

INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
INFO:     Started reloader process [2248755] using WatchFiles
INFO:     Started server process [2248757]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
```

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