Django deploy to Production in Ubuntu 16.04 - django

Question

I'm fairly new to django , i have to deploy the project to production mode in ubuntu 16.04. I have installed wsgi with apache2 and included the system path to the django project and python site-packages.
My sites-enabled/000-default.config is
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName myproject.com
ServerAlias www.myproject.com
Alias /static /var/www/html/TEST/myproject/static
<Directory /var/www/html/TEST/myproject/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html/TEST/myproject/myproject>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
WSGIDaemonProcess myproject python-home=/var/www/html/TEST/newenv python-path=/var/www/html/TEST/myproject:/var/www/html/TEST/newenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup myproject
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/html/TEST/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
and my wsgi file
import os , sys
sys.path.append('/var/www/html/TEST/myproject/')
sys.path.append('/var/www/html/TEST/newenv/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/')
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'myproject.settings')
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()
when i run the link i am getting Internal Server Error(505)
and i have checked the error in the error log ,it's showing me from
django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
[wsgi:error] ImportError: No module named django.core.wsgi
Can someone please help me with this ? i have googled and checked out all other options and solutions . Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Instead of:
WSGIDaemonProcess myproject python-home=/var/www/html/TEST/newenv \
python-path=/var/www/html/TEST/myproject:/var/www/html/TEST/newenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup myproject
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/html/TEST/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py
all you should need is:
WSGIDaemonProcess myproject python-home=/var/www/html/TEST/newenv \
python-path=/var/www/html/TEST/myproject
WSGIProcessGroup myproject
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/html/TEST/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py
You don't need to add the site-packages directory.
In the wsgi.py file you don't need:
sys.path.append('/var/www/html/TEST/myproject/')
sys.path.append('/var/www/html/TEST/newenv/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/')
as python-home and python-path on WSGIDaemonProcess achieve same result.
Another issue is that you have put your Django project code under the directory /var/www/html. You should not put it there. That is the default DocumentRoot directory. If you were to uncomment WSGIScriptAlias, someone could download your source code. So is better to not put your code under that directory.
Now neither of those things should make a difference as far as solving your problem, as the first just gets of redundant settings. The second is just changing to better practices.
At this point, the only reason can see why Django module could not be found is if the permissions on the directories/files are such that the user that Apache runs your code as cannot read them. So check permissions on /var/www/html/TEST/newenv.