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RabbitMQ just worked, no need for further comment there, except to say that it has a cool logo and is written in Erlang.

Celery comes with a supervisord/celeryd.conf file, but recommends that you use django-celery's celeryd.conf if you're using Django. This is my very slightly edited version of the file, with paths in directory and command to match the location of my project:

[program:celery]
command=/var/www/virtualenv/project/manage.py celeryd --loglevel=INFO
directory=/var/www/virtualenv/project
user=nobody
numprocs=1
...

When I reloaded the supervisord configs and tried to start celery it wouldn't work. I'd get one of the following error messages:

$ sudo supervisorctl status
celery          FATAL      Exited too quickly (process log may have details)
...

$ sudo supervisorctl status
celery          BACKOFF    Exited too quickly (process log may have details)
...

tail``ing ``/var/log/celeryd.log revealed the following:

...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/www/virtualenv/project/manage.py", line 3, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_manager
ImportError: No module named django.core.management
...

I fixed if by customizing the Python path in manage.py so that it points to the Python bin in the virtualenv. This line:

#!/usr/bin/env python

becomes this line:

#!/var/www/stage/nikkeienv/bin/python

With that change and another sudo supervisorctl reload everything worked.