title: 500 Internal Server Error - Django wsgi error showing on apache2 log
body: <p>I am getting an <strong>Internal Server Error</strong> and not sure if i need to change something in wsgi.
  The app was working fine while tested on virtual environment on port 8000.
  I followed all the steps using the tutorial <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_kQheCnds" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_kQheCnds</a> </p>
  
  <p>the apache error log shows the following :</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Sun Feb 23 02:13:47.329729 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 2544:tid 140477402474240] [remote xx.xx.xx.xx:59870] mod_wsgi (pid=2544): Target WSGI script '/home/recprydjango/rec$
  [Sun Feb 23 02:13:47.329817 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 2544:tid 140477402474240] [remote xx.xx.xx.xx:59870] mod_wsgi (pid=2544): Exception occurred processing WSGI script $
  [Sun Feb 23 02:13:47.330088 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 2544:tid 140477402474240] [remote xx.xx.xx.xx:59870] Traceback (most recent call last):
  [Sun Feb 23 02:13:47.330125 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 2544:tid 140477402474240] [remote xx.xx.xx.xx:59870]   File "/home/recprydjango/recipe/app/wsgi.py", line 12, in &lt;mo$
  [Sun Feb 23 02:13:47.330130 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 2544:tid 140477402474240] [remote xx.xx.xx.xx:59870]     from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  [Sun Feb 23 02:13:47.330148 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 2544:tid 140477402474240] [remote xx.xx.xx.xx:59870] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have the following structure</p>
  
  <pre><code>(venv) recprydjango@recpry-django:~/recipe$ tree 
  .
  ├── app
  │   ├── __init__.py
  │   ├── __pycache__
  │   │   ├── ...
  │   │   └── wsgi.cpython-37.pyc
  │   ├── settings.py
  │   ├── urls.py
  │   └── wsgi.py
  ├── db.sqlite3
  ├── manage.py
  ├── media
  │   └── images
  │       ├── chocolatecake.png
  │       └── ...
  ├── recipe
  │   ├── admin.py
  │   ├── apps.py
  │   ├── forms.py
  │   ├── __init__.py
  │   ├── models.py
  │   ├── __pycache__
  │   │   ├── ...
  │   │   └── views.cpython-37.pyc
  │   ├── tests.py
  │   └── views.py
  ├── requirements.txt
  ├── static
  │   ├── admin
  │   │   ├── css/...
  │   │   ├── fonts/...
  │   │   ├── img/...
  │   │   └── js/...
  │   └── smart-selects/...
  ├── templates
  │   └── home.html
  └── venv
      ├── bin
      │   ├── activate
      │   ├── activate.csh
      │   ├── activate.fish
      │   ├── easy_install
      │   ├── easy_install-3.6
      │   ├── pip
      │   ├── pip3
      │   ├── pip3.6
      │   ├── python -&gt; python3
      │   └── python3 -&gt; /usr/bin/python3
      ├── include
      ├── lib
      │   └── python3.6
      │       └── site-packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>settings.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>    import os
      import json
  
      with open('/etc/config.json') as config_file:
          config = json.load(config_file)
  
      # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
      BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  
  
      # Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
      # See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/deployment/checklist/
  
      # SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
      SECRET_KEY = config['SECRET_KEY']
  
      # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
      DEBUG = False
  
      ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['xx.xx.xx.xx']
  
  
      # Application definition
  
      INSTALLED_APPS = [
          'django.contrib.admin',
          'django.contrib.auth',
          'django.contrib.contenttypes',
          'django.contrib.sessions',
          'django.contrib.messages',
          'django.contrib.staticfiles',
          #--- ADDED APP recipe HERE !!!!
          'recipe',
          #--- ADDED Smart_Selects HERE !!
          'smart_selects',
          #Bootstap
          'crispy_forms',
  'widget_tweaks',
  ]
  
  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.urls'
  
  TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
          # --- TEMPLATE DIRECTORY
          'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
          '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.wsgi.application'
  
  
  # Database
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#databases
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
          'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
      }
  }
  
  
  # Password validation
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
  
  AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
      },
  ]
  
  
  # Internationalization
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/i18n/
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
  
  USE_I18N = True
  
  USE_L10N = True
  
  USE_TZ = True
  
  
  # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/static-files/
  
  STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  
  #--- ADDED THIS SECTION TO UPLOAD PHOTOS !!!! ---
  MEDIA_ROOT =  os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') 
  MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
  #------------------------------------------------
  
  #--- ADDED THIS SECTION FOR SMART SELECTS !!! ---
  USE_DJANGO_JQUERY = True
  #------------------------------------------------
  
  CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap4'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>wsgi.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>"""
  WSGI config for app project.
  
  It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
  
  For more information on this file, see
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/deployment/wsgi/
  """
  
  import os
  import sys
  
  sys.path.insert(0, '/home/recprydjango/recipe/')
  sys.path.insert(0, '/home/recprydjango/recipe/app/')
  sys.path.insert(0, '/home/recprydjango/recipe/recipe/')
  
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  
  os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'app.settings')
  
  application = get_wsgi_application()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>apache conf</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
          # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
          # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
          # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
          # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
          # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
          # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
          # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
          #ServerName www.example.com
  
          ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
          DocumentRoot /var/www/html
  
          # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
          # error, crit, alert, emerg.
          # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
          # modules, e.g.
          #LogLevel info ssl:warn
  
          ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
          CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  
          # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
          # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
          # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
          # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
          # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
          #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
  
          Alias /static /home/recprydjango/recipe/static
          &lt;Directory /home/recprydjango/recipe/static&gt;
          Require all granted
          &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
          Alias /media /home/recprydjango/recipe/media
          &lt;Directory /home/recprydjango/recipe/media&gt;
          Require all granted
          &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
          &lt;Directory /home/recprydjango/recipe/app&gt;
          &lt;Files wsgi.py&gt;
          Require all granted
          &lt;/Files&gt;
          &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
          WSGIScriptAlias / /home/recprydjango/recipe/app/wsgi.py
          WSGIDaemonProcess django_app python-path=/home/recprydjango/recipe python-home=/home/recprydjango/recipe/venv
          WSGIProcessGroup django_app
  
  
  
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  
  # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
  </code></pre>