django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: WSGI application 'application' could not be loaded

Question

The scenario is,

I cloned the Django code for OpenShift-V3 from here . When I run the code using python manage.py runserver getting an error as,

Answer 1

pip install whitenoise

Although solved my problem. Generally produced while we are moving a project to different virtual enviroments. Sometimes we forgot to install the package & whitenoise just broke the application little bit, because no where it is mentioned that you are missing "whitenoise" module.