问题 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, virtualenv (and -wrapper), and uWSGI (via apt-get, so globally, not inside the virtualenv). My virtualenv is located at /root/Env/example . Inside of the virtualenv, I installed Django, then at /srv/www/example/app ran Django's startproject command with the project name example , so I have vaguely this structure: -root