Deploying Django on Apache with mod_wsgi - django

Question

I'm currently trying to set up a Django application on Apache on a Centos server, with the use of mod_wsgi. This is set up to run on https. It is on virtualenv.
However, currently it gives a 504 Gateway Timeout error.
Error log:
(2)No such file or directory: mod_wsgi (pid=15007): Unable to stat Python home /bin/virtualenv:/var/www/django/mysite/mysite/lib/python3.6/site-packages. Python interpreter may not be able to be initialized correctly. Verify the supplied path and access permissions for whole of the path.
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
httpd.conf
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName mysite.example.com
ServerAlias www.mysite.example.com
# DocumentRoot /var/www/django/mysite
LogLevel info
ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/mysite_error.log
Alias /static /var/www/django/mysite/static
<Directory /var/www/django/mysite/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/django/mysite/mysite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-home=/bin/virtualenv:/var/www/django/mysite/mysite/lib/python3.6/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup mysite
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/django/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
SSLEngine on
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLCompression off
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mysite.cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/mysite.key.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mysite.chain.pem
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

This is incorrect:
WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-home=/bin/virtualenv:/var/www/django/mysite/mysite/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Review:
http://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/develop/user-guides/virtual-environments.html
The python-home value should be a single directory, which is the same as sys.prefix for Python when using virtual environment. Do not added site-packages directory.
Most important, mod_wsgi must be compiled for same Python version as was used to create the virtual environment. You can't use mod_wsgi compiled for Python 2.7 with virtual environment created with Python 3.6.
Check what version of Python mod_wsgi was compiled for using:
http://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/develop/user-guides/checking-your-installation.html#python-installation-in-use