No module named settings error django elastic beanstalk

Question

I'm trying to deploy a django app to elastic beanstalk. Beanstalk can't find the settings file when loading wsgi.py . I've seen this in a few other SO questions, but none of those solved my issue.

I get the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kairos_app.prod_settings'
Target WSGI script '/opt/python/current/app/kairos_app/kairos_app/wsgi.py' cannot be loaded as Python module.

These are the contents of the 02_python.config file under .ebextensions :

container_commands:
  01_migrate:
    command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python3 kairos_app/manage.py migrate --noinput"
    leader_only: true
  02_collectstatic:
    command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python3 kairos_app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput"

option_settings:
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment":
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: "kairos_app.prod_settings"
    "PYTHONPATH": "/opt/python/current/app/kairos_app:$PYTHONPATH"
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python":
    WSGIPath: kairos_app/kairos_app/wsgi.py
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
    "/static/": "www/static/"

And this is what the directory structure looks like:

It seems to pick up the WSGIPath okay, so I'm not sure why it can't pick up the django settings module path.

Answer 1

It might be looking into the parent kairos_app directory.

Try changing

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: "kairos_app.prod_settings"

into

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: "kairos_app.kairos_app.prod_settings"

OR

"PYTHONPATH": "/opt/python/current/app/kairos_app:$PYTHONPATH"

into

"PYTHONPATH": "/opt/python/current/app/kairos_app/kairos_app:$PYTHONPATH"

The latter impacts the whole runtime, so it might break things.