Question

I’m trying to set up a simple website using Flask, wsgi, and apache2. I’m getting the following error trying to import from site.py into site.wsgi:

[Fri Jan 11 16:42:20 2013] [error] [client 174.48.34.188] mod_wsgi (pid=15170): Target WSGI script '/home/www/site/site.wsgi' cannot be loaded as Python module.
[Fri Jan 11 16:42:20 2013] [error] [client 174.48.34.188] mod_wsgi (pid=15170): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/www/site/site.wsgi'.
[Fri Jan 11 16:42:20 2013] [error] [client 174.48.34.188] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Fri Jan 11 16:42:20 2013] [error] [client 174.48.34.188]   File "/home/www/site/site.wsgi", line 1, in <module>
[Fri Jan 11 16:42:20 2013] [error] [client 174.48.34.188]     from site import app as application
[Fri Jan 11 16:42:20 2013] [error] [client 174.48.34.188] ImportError: cannot import name app

Here is my site.py:

from flask import Flask, render_template

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def home_page():
    return render_template('index.html')

app.debug = True
if __name__ == '__main__'
    app.run()

Here is my site.wsgi:

from site import app as application

And here is my apache config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [e-mail]
    ServerName mywebsite.here
    DocumentRoot /home/www/site

    WSGIDaemonProcess site user=${APACHE_RUN_USER} group=${APACHE_RUN_GROUP} threads=5
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/www/site/site.wsgi

    <Directory /home/www/site>
        WSGIProcessGroup site
        WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
        WSGIScriptReloading On
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
</VirtualHost>

I’ve searched around for a while trying to figure this out but I’m stumped. I’m also fairly new to web design, so it could be something silly. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Found the answer – as Audrius said in the comments, it was a conflict because I named the file site.py. I changed it to mysite.py everywhere necessary and added the following to mysite.wsgi (formerly site.wsgi):

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/home/www/mysite.wsgi')