Target WSGI script cannot be loaded as Python module

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I am trying to deploy mod wsgi with apache to run a django application but I am getting an error 500 internal server error The apache logs shows    Thu Jun 23 14 01 47 2011   error   client 152 78 95 64  mod wsgi  pid 16142   Exception occurred processing WSGI script   home user bms apache django wsgi    Thu Jun 23 14 01 47 2011   error   client 152 78 95 64  Traceback  most recent call last    Thu Jun 23 14 01 47 2011   error   client 152 78 95 64    File   home user bms apache django wsgi   line 13  in  lt module gt   Thu Jun 23 14 01 47 2011   error   client 152 78 95 64      import django core handlers wsgi  Thu Jun 23 14 01 47 2011   error   client 152 78 95 64  ImportError  No module named django core handlers wsgi   My apache virtual host is as follows    lt VirtualHost   80 gt       DocumentRoot  home user bms       lt Directory  home user bms gt          Order allow deny         Allow from all      lt  Directory gt   WSGIDaemonProcess bms user user group user processes 2 threads 25 python-path  usr local lib python2 7 site-packages       WSGIProcessGroup bms      WSGIScriptAlias    home user bms apache django wsgi   lt  VirtualHost gt    And the referenced wsgi file in my app directory with 0777 permissions   import os import sys  path     home user bms  if path not in sys path      sys path append path   os environ  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE      bms settings   import django core handlers wsgi application   django core handlers wsgi WSGIHandler     I heard that this may be because the apache user does not have the correct permissions  However I have no idea how to fix this  I also tried starting the deamon with the www-data user and this did not solve the issue   EDIT   I solved this by copying the virtual hosts file into the default one and then disabling the old one with a2dissite  I have no idea how I can do it  properly  and set it so apache goes to the virtual host I want it to though

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Sometimes when I get stuck on this I hard code a path to project in the wsgi file like  import os import sys   sys path append  quot  var www html myproject quot   from django core wsgi import get wsgi application os environ setdefault  quot DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE quot    quot myproject settings quot    application   get wsgi application

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If you install your project   s Python dependencies inside a virtualenv  you   ll need to add the path to this virtualenv   s directory to your Python path as well  To do this  add an additional path to your WSGIPythonPath directive  with multiple paths separated by a colon     if using a UNIX-like system  or a semicolon     if using Windows

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In my own case on windows in xampp  I was incorrectly loading the application path in the wsgi py file like so   Incorrect   import sys  os environ setdefault  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE    advisory portal settings    application   get wsgi application   sys path append  C  xampp htdocs advisory portal advisory portal   sys path append  C  xampp htdocs advisory portal     Instead of   Correct   import sys  sys path append  C  xampp htdocs advisory portal advisory portal   sys path append  C  xampp htdocs advisory portal   os environ setdefault  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE    advisory portal settings    application   get wsgi application     Don t forget to import sys python package

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For me the problem was wsgi python version mismatch  I was using python 3  so     sudo apt-get remove libapache2-mod-python libapache2-mod-wsgi   sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3   Warning from  alxs before you copy paste these commands  If there are python 2 projects running on the server that use wsgi and apache  the above commands will effectively shut them down

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I had a similar problem with this error message in the logs      Target WSGI script   home web2py wsgihandler py  cannot be loaded as Python module    The solution was the deletion of an incorrect WSGIPythonHome directive  pointing to the application directory  from  etc httpd conf d wsgi conf  I m on RedHat using CentOS repositories   Recommend following Graham Dumpleton s installation configuration instructions  Testing configuration against the helloworld application showed me that mod wsgi was working and the configuration was at fault   However  the error message gave little clue as to what was wrong

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I had the same error     Target WSGI script cannot be loaded as Python module   This was because the python path was not added in the apache conf  Depending on the Apache and Ubuntu version you need to update the apache conf or httpd conf file with the pythonWSGIPath  In my case I need to edit the apache conf  sudo nano  etc apache2 apache2 conf   Then add the following line at the end  Change the my project to the project your project name   WSGIPythonPath  var www my project   And everything works with charm

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Appending path in wsgi py is the direction  but instead of appending django appending path sys path append   path to virtual environment lib pythonX X site-packages   fixed my case   This is for a django project using python2 7 on ubuntu 16 04

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Adding on to the list this is how I got it working   I was trying to install CKAN 2 7 2 on CentOS 7 from source and kept coming up against this error  For me it was because SELinux was enabled  I didn t need to disable it  Instead  after reading https   www endpoint com blog 2010 10 13 selinux-httpd-modwsgi-26-rhel-centos-5  I found that turning on httpd can network connect fixed it   setsebool -P httpd can network connect on   From that page      httpd can network connect - Allows httpd to make network connections    including the local ones you ll be making to a database

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I was getting this error  I m using python 3 in a virtual environment found this in my apache logs      Fri Dec 21 08 01 43 471561 2018   mpm prefork notice   pid 21786    AH00163  Apache 2 4 6  Red Hat Enterprise Linux  mod wsgi 3 4   Python 2 7 5 configured -- resuming normal operations   I had installed wsgi using yum -y install mod wsgi  This had installed mod wsgi compiled for python 2  So I uninstalled it   yum remove mod wsgi   and installed mod wsgi compiled for python 3 using  yum install python35u-mod wsgi   It worked after that

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I had the same problem and it got solved using   sudo easy install cx Oracle   but remember to unistall cx oracle before installing it using easy install   Command to uninstall   pip uninstall cx oracle

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I had similar issue eg apache log error  wsgi py cannot be loaded as Python module     It turned out I had to stop and then start apache instead of just restarting it

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I had the same problem and at first I didn t realise I could scroll further down and see the actual error message  In my case  it was an import error   ImportError  No module named bootstrap3   After installing it via pip  pip install django-bootstrap3   I restarted Apache and it worked

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For me the issue was that the WSGI script wasn t executable   sudo chmod a x django wsgi   or just  sudo chmod u x django wsgi   so long as you have the correct owner

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I know this question is pretty old  but I wrestled with this for about eight hours just now  If you have a system with SELinux enabled and you ve put your virtualenv in particular places  mod wsgi won t be able to add your specified python-path to the site-packages  It also won t raise any errors  as it turns out the mechanism it uses to add the specified python-path to the site packages is with the Python site module  specifically site adduserdir    This method doesn t raise any errors if the directory is missing or can t be accessed  so mod wsgi also doesn t raise any errors   Anyway  try turning off SELinux with   sudo setenforce 0   or by making sure that the process you re running Apache as has the appropriate ACLs with SELinux to access the directory the virtualenv is in

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The solution that finally worked for me  after trying many of these options unsuccessfully was simple  but elusive because I struggled to figure out what actual paths to use   I created a mezzanine project  which is based on django  with the following commands  I list them here to make the paths explicit    var www mysite  python3 -m venv   venv  var www mysite  source   venv bin activate  venv   var www mysite  mezzanine-project mysite  venv   var www mysite  cd mysite  venv   var www mysite mysite    Now  the path to the wsgi py file is    var www mysite mysite mysite wsgi py   The directives that worked for this installation within my  etc apache2 sites-available mysite conf file follow       lt VirtualHost    gt              WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-home  var www mysite venv python-path  var www mysite mysite     WSGIProcessGroup mysite     WSGIScriptAlias    var www mysite mysite mysite wsgi py process-group accounting      lt Directory  var www mysite mysite mysite gt           lt Files wsgi py gt              Require all granted          lt  Files gt       lt  Directory gt           lt  VirtualHost gt       I tried numerous versions of python-home and python-path and got the OP s error repeatedly  Using the correct paths here should also accomplish the same things as  Dev s answer without having to add paths in the wsgi py file  supplied by mezzanine  and no editing necessary in my case

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I recommend trying to downgrade DJANGO to version 2 1 1

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As this question became sort of a pool for collecting solutions for problems that result in the error giving this question its title  I d like to add this one  too   In my case  I want to run OpenStack Keystone  Ocata  using Apache and WSGI on Ubuntu 16 04 2  The processes start but as soon as I query keystone I get  mod wsgi  pid 20103   Target WSGI script   opt openstack bin keystone-wsgi-public  cannot be loaded as Python module    I had two vhosts  one had  WSGIDaemonProcess keystone-public     WSGIProcessGroup keystone-public       while the other had  WSGIDaemonProcess keystone-admin     WSGIProcessGroup keystone-admin       I solved the problem by renaming them  The vhost entries now read   WSGIDaemonProcess kst-pub     WSGIProcessGroup kst-pub       and  WSGIDaemonProcess kst-adm     WSGIProcessGroup kst-adm       I didn t investigate any further  Solved as works for me

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Did you try it without the WSGIDaemonProcess option   I had no trouble setting up mod wsgi at home  but did it without the daemon option   You mentioned solving by moving around virtual hosts files and I note this caveat in the docs for WSGIDaemonProcess      Also note that the name of the daemon   process group must be unique for the   whole server  That is  it is not   possible to use the same daemon   process group name in different   virtual hosts    Don t know if that s coincidence

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