Django ImproperlyConfigured: WSGI application 'myproject.wsgi.application' could not be loaded; Error importing module

Question

I have an almost fresh install of django and when I try to python manage.py runserver.It is is giving me this error:

ImproperlyConfigured: WSGI applicati

Answer 1

One of the reason for this issue is if you have a middleware added into django middleware list in settings.py but haven't installed it yet.

In my case I added corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware which wasn't installed.I installed it using pip install django-cors-headers and that did the trick.

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem because I added the debug_toolbar Middleware to my settings.py

'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',

I solved the problem by removing the debug_toolbar Middleware. I also had to remove debug_toolbar from my INSTALLED APPS.