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Hi I am trying to get PA working for the first time but am having trouble with the following error. I am running Python 2.7 and Django 1.9. I have checked that these are the versions that are running in my virtual environment.

2017-05-25 05:50:15,504: Error running WSGI application
2017-05-25 05:50:15,509: ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting LOGGING_CONFIG, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
2017-05-25 05:50:15,509:   File "/var/www/chriswardchrisward_pythonanywhere_com_wsgi.py", line 15, in <module>
2017-05-25 05:50:15,509:     application = get_wsgi_application()
2017-05-25 05:50:15,509: 
2017-05-25 05:50:15,510:   File "/home/chriswardchrisward/.virtualenvs/SST/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 13, in get_wsgi_application
2017-05-25 05:50:15,510:     django.setup()
2017-05-25 05:50:15,510: 
2017-05-25 05:50:15,511:   File "/home/chriswardchrisward/.virtualenvs/SST/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 17, in setup
2017-05-25 05:50:15,511:     configure_logging(settings.LOGGING_CONFIG, settings.LOGGING)
2017-05-25 05:50:15,511: 
2017-05-25 05:50:15,511:   File "/home/chriswardchrisward/.virtualenvs/SST/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 55, in __getattr__
2017-05-25 05:50:15,512:     self._setup(name)
2017-05-25 05:50:15,512: 
2017-05-25 05:50:15,512:   File "/home/chriswardchrisward/.virtualenvs/SST/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 41, in _setup
2017-05-25 05:50:15,512:     % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Beloved premium user chriswardchrisward | 8 posts | May 25, 2017, 5:56 a.m. | permalink

in your wsgi.py file, do you have the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set? this should be set automatically if you go through the normal create webapp process- but perhaps you manually edited that file and took it out?

Staff conrad | 4232 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | May 25, 2017, 1:49 p.m. | permalink

I have changed some things inside my wsgi.py file but I was under the impression from the Deploy an existing Django Project guide that Python anywhere system ignores that file.

That file looks as follows:

import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "blog.settings")
from django.conf import settings

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
from whitenoise.django import DjangoWhiteNoise

application = get_wsgi_application()
# application = DjangoWhiteNoise(application)

if not settings.DEBUG:
    try:
        application = get_wsgi_application()
        application = DjangoWhiteNoise(application)
    except:
        pass

while the PythonAnywhere wsgi file looks as follows

import os
import sys

# assuming your django settings file is at '/home/chriswardchrisward/mysite/mysite/settings.py'
# and your manage.py is is at '/home/chriswardchrisward/mysite/manage.py'
path = '/home/chriswardchrisward/swanson_speech_therapy2/blog/src'
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)

# os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'blog.settings'

# then, for django >=1.5:
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()
# or, for older django <=1.4
# import django.core.handlers.wsgi
# application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
Beloved premium user chriswardchrisward | 8 posts | May 25, 2017, 4:29 p.m. | permalink

It looks like some of wsgi.py is artifacts from attempting to deploy my site on Heroku (facepalm). But now I am unsure of what actually needs to be in that file. Everything works locally.

Beloved premium user chriswardchrisward | 8 posts | May 25, 2017, 4:52 p.m. | permalink

PythonAnywhere ignores the wsgi.py that's part of your Django project -- the only one you need to set up is the one that's linked from the "Web" tab.

Looking at the code you provided above, I think all you need to do to get this working is to uncomment the line

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'blog.settings'

...then reload the site on the "Web" tab.

Staff giles | 11788 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | May 25, 2017, 7:27 p.m. | permalink

Thanks for your answer giles, your below suggestion fixed my problem as well!

PythonAnywhere ignores the wsgi.py that's part of your Django project -- the only one you need to set up is the one that's linked from the "Web" tab.

baelgin | 1 post | May 4, 2023, 7:08 a.m. | permalink