ImportError: No module named django.core.wsgi Apache + VirtualEnv + AWS + WSGI

Question

I am trying to publish my site on an Amazon\'s EC2 Instance, and I keep getting a 500 error. I really dunno why.

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Answer 1

You've configured everything very well my friend, just need to give the apache user permission to access both project and virtualenv dirs.

Example:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/ubuntu/projects
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/ubuntu/virtualenv

This solved my problem with ImportError: No module named django.core.wsgi (virtualenvs folders) and ImportError: No module named <project-name>.settings (projects folders)

Answer 2

For me, this indicated Django wasn't installed on the sever. Fixed via

pip install Django

Answer 3

For me it was some variables that needed to be setted (for windows) :

set PYTHONHOME=F:\path\to\python
set PYTHONPATH=F:\path\to\python

Answer 4

I know that this is an old thread but I've just bumped into the same issue and I don't think that this is caused by a missing package. As the Django core distribution contains the correct wsgi handler already.

The problem here is that when wsgi.py is executed it's missing the packages of the site-packages from your virtualenv. (If you have activated your virtualenv, and done pip install django then everything is fine. You have the necessary django packages).

As far as I'm concerned, I fixed the issue modifying the sys.path in my Path/to/Project/Project/wsgi.py file.

You have to append your project dir and your virtualenv site-packages to the sys.path List. Here is my wsgi.py file contained in my project (Talking about the wsgi.py created with django-admin.py start-project)... that I had to modify in order to make it work with Apache

# =====================
# wsgi.py file begin 

import os, sys
# add the hellodjango project path into the sys.path
sys.path.append('<PATH_TO_MY_DJANGO_PROJECT>/hellodjango')

# add the virtualenv site-packages path to the sys.path
sys.path.append('<PATH_TO_VIRTUALENV>/Lib/site-packages')

# poiting to the project settings
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "hellodjango.settings")

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()

# wsgi.py file end
# ===================

Make sure:

1. you added mod_wsgi to the Apache modules dir mod_wsgi must be compiled for the OS, Apache and Python version you have

2. added the load module command into your httpd.conf to load mod_wsgi module LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so

3. configured Django specifics in your httpd.conf or any conf you include in your httpd.conf

Based on the documentation How to use Django with Apache and mod_wsgi

WSGIScriptAlias / <PATH_TO_PROJECT>/hellodjango/hellodjango/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath <PATH_TO_PROJECT>:<PATH_TO_VIRTUALENV>/Lib/site-packages

<Directory <PATH_TO_PROJECT>/hellodjango/hellodjango> 
  <Files wsgi.py>
    Order deny,allow
    Require all granted
  </Files>
</Directory>

Hope this helps. It worked for me.