title: Django mod_wsgi Apache Server, ModuleNotFoundError: No Module Named Django
body: <p>I read ton of articles, but still can't figure out what I'm missing. I'm running a django website from virtualenv. Here's my config file. The website address is replaced by &lt;domain.com&gt;, can't use that here.</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Config</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      
          ServerAdmin sidharth@collaboration-management
          ServerName &lt;domain.com&gt;
          ServerAlias &lt;domain.com&gt;
          DocumentRoot /home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb
  
          ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
          CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  
          Alias /static /home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/static
  
          &lt;Directory /home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/static&gt;
                  Require all granted
          &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
          &lt;Directory /home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/gmcweb&gt;
                  &lt;Files wsgi.py&gt;
                          Require all granted
                  &lt;/Files&gt;
          &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
  
          WSGIDaemonProcess gmcweb python-home=/home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcwebenvlin python-path=/home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb
          WSGIProcessGroup gmcweb
          WSGIScriptAlias / /home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/gmcweb/wsgi.py
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>Here's my WSGI.py file, didn't change anything never had to earlier</p>
  <pre><code>import os
  
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  
  os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'gmcweb.settings')
  
  application = get_wsgi_application()
  </code></pre>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Python Versions</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>My virtualenv python version is 3.9.5
  Default Google VM python version is 3.6.9</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Python Installed Libraries</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <pre><code>Package                  Version
  ------------------------ ---------
  asgiref                  3.4.0
  attrs                    21.2.0
  autopep8                 1.5.7
  beautifulsoup4           4.9.3
  certifi                  2021.5.30
  cffi                     1.14.5
  chardet                  4.0.0
  cryptography             3.4.7
  defusedxml               0.7.1
  Django                   3.2.4
  django-allauth           0.44.0
  django-livereload-server 0.3.2
  idna                     2.10
  jsonschema               3.2.0
  oauthlib                 3.1.1
  pip                      21.2.3
  pycodestyle              2.7.0
  pycparser                2.20
  PyJWT                    2.1.0
  pyrsistent               0.18.0
  python3-openid           3.2.0
  pytz                     2021.1
  requests                 2.25.1
  requests-oauthlib        1.3.0
  setuptools               57.4.0
  six                      1.16.0
  soupsieve                2.2.1
  sqlparse                 0.4.1
  toml                     0.10.2
  tornado                  6.1
  urllib3                  1.26.6
  </code></pre>
  <p>I installed apache modwsgi as well <code>sudo apt-get install python3-pip apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3</code></p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>Error Log File</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  <pre><code>[Thu Sep 23 15:05:06.554545 2021] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 32077:tid 140392561593280] AH00489: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) mod_wsgi/4.5.17 Python/3.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:06.554594 2021] [core:notice] [pid 32077:tid 140392561593280] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:19.081581 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392409851648] [remote 103.206.177.13:49604] mod_wsgi (pid=32617): Target WSGI script '/home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/gmcweb/wsgi.py' c$
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:19.081638 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392409851648] [remote 103.206.177.13:49604] mod_wsgi (pid=32617): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/sidharth/Downloads/g$
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:19.081828 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392409851648] [remote 103.206.177.13:49604] Traceback (most recent call last):
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:19.081849 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392409851648] [remote 103.206.177.13:49604]   File &quot;/home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/gmcweb/wsgi.py&quot;, line 12, in &lt;module&gt;
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:19.081853 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392409851648] [remote 103.206.177.13:49604]     from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:19.081867 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392409851648] [remote 103.206.177.13:49604] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:32.244779 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392325842688] [remote 103.206.177.13:52916] mod_wsgi (pid=32617): Target WSGI script '/home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/gmcweb/wsgi.py' c$
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:32.244845 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392325842688] [remote 103.206.177.13:52916] mod_wsgi (pid=32617): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/sidharth/Downloads/g$
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:32.244924 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392325842688] [remote 103.206.177.13:52916] Traceback (most recent call last):
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:32.244946 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392325842688] [remote 103.206.177.13:52916]   File &quot;/home/sidharth/Downloads/gmcweb/gmcweb/wsgi.py&quot;, line 12, in &lt;module&gt;
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:32.244951 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392325842688] [remote 103.206.177.13:52916]     from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  [Thu Sep 23 15:05:32.244966 2021] [wsgi:error] [pid 32617:tid 140392325842688] [remote 103.206.177.13:52916] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
  </code></pre>