uWSGI + virtualenv 'No module named site'

Question

So this seems to be a really common problem with this setup, but I can\'t find any solutions that work on SO. I\'ve setup a very new Ubuntu 15.04 server, then installed nginx, v

Answer 1

In my case, I was seeing this issue because the django app I was trying to run was written in python 3 whereas uwsgi was configured for python 2. I fixed the problem by:

1. recompiling uwsgi to support both python 2 and python 3 apps (I followed this guide)
2. adding this to my mydjangoproject_uwsgi.ini:

plugins         = python35 # or whatever you specified while compiling uwsgi 

For other folks using Django, you should also make sure you are correctly specifying the following:

# Django dir that contains manage.py
chdir           = /var/www/project/myprojectname
# Django wsgi (myprojectname is the name of your top-level project)
module          = myprojectname.wsgi:application
# the virtualenv you are using (full path)
home            = /home/ubuntu/Env/mydjangovenv
plugins         = python35