How to run Django app with Gunicorn/WSGI webserver?

Question

I have my existing Django application running locally on my MacBook. It's directory structure looks something like this:

myproject/
    mySite/
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        urls.py
        wsgi.py
    myApp1/
        __init__.py
        models.py
        views.py
    manage.py
    requirements.txt

Up until now, I have been using the Django toy webserver to run my app: ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. But now I want to use gunicorn instead. So I'm following the instructions here.

I do source myVirtualenv/bin/activate && cd myproject && gunicorn mySite.wsgi. I get the following error:

  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "myproject/MyApp2/models.py", line 11, in <module>
    from caching.base import CachingManager, CachingMixin
ImportError: No module named caching.base

When I run ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 from the same location it works perfectly fine.

Why? Am I doing something wrong? Does Django-Cache-Machine not work with Gunicorn/WSGI? How to work around this issue?

Answer 1

You seem to have installed gunicorn globally rather than within the virtualenv, so the executable is pointing to the global Python and its site-packages directory rather than the one within the virtualenv. Reinstall gunicorn locally.