title: How to run gunicorn from a folder that is not the django project folder
body: <p>I git cloned a project in my home folder, let's call it <code>/home/telessaude</code>. So the project root is located at <code>/home/telessaude/telessaude_branch_master</code></p>
  
  <p>If I am inside the Django project home folder ( /home/telessaude/telessaude_branch_master ) and issue a gunicorn comman such as</p>
  
  <p><code>gunicorn -w 2 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 telessaude.wsgi_dev:application --reload --timeout 900</code></p>
  
  <p>gunicorn starts and works just fine. However ... if I try to run the same command on one directory above ( /home/telessaude ), I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>telessaude@ubuntu:~$ gunicorn -w 2 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 telessaude.wsgi_dev:application --reload --timeout 900
  [2017-03-22 16:39:28 +0000] [10405] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 19.6.0
  [2017-03-22 16:39:28 +0000] [10405] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:8000 (10405)
  [2017-03-22 16:39:28 +0000] [10405] [INFO] Using worker: sync
  [2017-03-22 16:39:28 +0000] [10410] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 10410
  [2017-03-22 16:39:28 +0000] [10410] [ERROR] Exception in worker process
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 557, in spawn_worker
      worker.init_process()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 126, in init_process
      self.load_wsgi()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 136, in load_wsgi
      self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
      self.callable = self.load()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 65, in load
      return self.load_wsgiapp()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load_wsgiapp
      return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 357, in import_app
      __import__(module)
  ImportError: No module named telessaude.wsgi_dev
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried running gunicorn in my home folder with</p>
  
  <p><code>gunicorn -w 2 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 telessaude_branch_master.telessaude.wsgi_dev:application --reload --timeout 900</code></p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p><code>gunicorn -w 2 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 /home/telessaude/telessaude_branch_master/telessaude.wsgi_dev:application --reload --timeout 900</code></p>
  
  <p>but none of them also worked. Can someone tell me how to fix this? I need to run gunicorn from any folder, because I must add it as a "command" parameter to supervisor.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not using a virtual enviromnment.</p>