django-admin cannot find settings module

Question

I'm trying to run django-admin runserver but I get this error:

    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 961, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 973, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'App'

I am using pipenv so I made a .env file in the cwd and I have the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE pointing at src.App.settings I haven't made any sort of modifications, I believe, except running the server once with ./src/manage.py runserver (it automatically created an sqlite3 db). Here is the file structure image

I can run the server perfectly fine if I run it through manage.py though

Answer 1

You can use uwsgi to run a django project.

First install uwsgi using:

pip install uWSGI

Go to project folder and enter this in terminal:

Replace server with whatever is your project name

uwsgi --http :8000 --module Server.wsgi

if you are not interested in install another module then there is no way to runserver locally

Answer 2

This is a similar question that was asked, you can check it out.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32199813/12640905

However, my guess is that the python installation that you're using isn't the same as the pip environment that you're installing the packages into.