Setting up Django Application with Gunicorn

Question

so I am following this tutorial on digital ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn

The only thing I am not doing is using the DB engine and I was just going to stick with the SQLite3 engine as the application is only small. I'm getting to the point where I am trying to run the server wgsi file and it's showing a import filename not supported error. I'm not sure how I can get around this.

I have tried running:

python manage.py run_gunicorn 127.0.0.0:8001

But it's saying Unknown command: 'run_gunicorn' and showing the help it's not showing run_gunicorn

Here's my wgsi file (took the project name out):

import os

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "xxxx.settings")

from django.core.wgsi import get_wgsi_application
application = get_wgsi_application()

Heres the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 507, in spawn_worker
    worker.init_process()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 118, in init_process
    self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
    self.callable = self.load()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 65, in load
    return self.load_wsgiapp()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load_wsgiapp
    return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 355, in import_app
    __import__(module)
ImportError: Import by filename is not supported.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 507, in spawn_worker
    worker.init_process()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 118, in init_process
    self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
    self.callable = self.load()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 65, in load
    return self.load_wsgiapp()
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load_wsgiapp
    return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
  File "/opt/sanderson-holdings/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 355, in import_app
    __import__(module)
ImportError: Import by filename is not supported.

Answer 1

I've run into similar issues when migrating from manage.py run_gunicorn to actually using the gunicorn command. I found I had to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE and also the settings in addition to the actual wsgi file.

My project structure:

• eestecnet/
  • manage.py
  • eestecnet/
    • eestecnet.wsgi
    • settings/
      • deployment.py

I run the following command from the root eestecnet folder:

gunicorn --env DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=eestecnet.settings.deployment --settings eestecnet.settings.deployment eestecnet.wsgi

in my settings I also specify:

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'eestecnet.wsgi.application'

I hope this will help you.