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

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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.

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