'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'session' multiple app - django

Question

I made a new app for my webapp project using ./manage.py startapp webapplogin.
The templates all works however now I keep getting 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'session' whenever I try to do anything with request such as logout(request) or login(request, user).
I don't understand what the issue is after about 6 hours of debugging/googling...
Do I need to go back to doing the webapp all in webapp instead of trying to split up the project into apps? The templating works fine as well as linking right now, just the no attribute 'session'...
project structure below
app_project
app_backend
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
static
static_files
webapp
templates
webapp
base.html
home.html
admin.py
apps.py
models.py
tests.py
urls.py
views.py
webapplogin
templates
login
login.html
admin.py
apps.py
models.py
tests.py
urls.py
views.py
project settings below
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'webapplogin.apps.LoginConfig',
'webapp.apps.WebappConfig',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.gis',
'django.contrib.humanize',
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'app_backend.urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'app_backend.wsgi.application'

Answer 1

currently on 1.9, Django doesn't recognize the MIDDLEWARE setting. You should use the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting

Answer 2

The reason this happens is because the order of the middleware is important.
During the request the Django session middleware must execute first in order to add the session object to the request.
Try the following :
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
]