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

The site module is in the root of django.

First check is to activate the virtualenv manually (source /root/Env/example/bin/activate, start python and import site). If that fails, pip install django.

Assuming that django is correctly installed in the virtualenv, make sure that uWSGI activates the virtualenv. Relevant uWSGI configuration directives:

plugins = python
virtualenv = /root/Env/example

and in case you have error importing example.wsgi:

pythonpath = /srv/www/example/app/example