Deploy django on CPanel

Using Django Deployment
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I setup a Python web app using the feature of CPanel. This works fine, I get the expected output. But story is different with django. django docs does not seem to have something specific to CPanel install. Searched the web and tried many Passenger_wsgy.py files. Typical script looks like so, but it seem some paths are always wrong. Any suggestions

Passenger file:

import os
import sys

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

# Set up paths and environment variables
sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'library.settings'

# Set script name for the PATH_INFO fix below
SCRIPT_NAME = os.getcwd()

class PassengerPathInfoFix(object):
    """
        Sets PATH_INFO from REQUEST_URI because Passenger doesn't provide it.
    """
    def __init__(self, app):
        self.app = app

    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
        from urllib.parse import unquote
        environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = SCRIPT_NAME
        request_uri = unquote(environ['REQUEST_URI'])
        script_name = unquote(environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME', ''))
        offset = request_uri.startswith(script_name) and len(environ['SCRIPT_NAME']) or 0
        environ['PATH_INFO'] = request_uri[offset:].split('?', 1)[0]
        return self.app(environ, start_response)

# Set the application
application = get_wsgi_application()
application = PassengerPathInfoFix(application)

Typical error log:

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mariostg/hello/passenger_wsgi.py", line 31, in <module>
    application = get_wsgi_application()
  File "/home/mariostg/virtualenv/hello/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 12, in get_wsgi_application
    django.setup(set_prefix=False)
  File "/home/mariostg/virtualenv/hello/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 19, in setup
    configure_logging(settings.LOGGING_CONFIG, settings.LOGGING)
  File "/home/mariostg/virtualenv/hello/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 92, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/home/mariostg/virtualenv/hello/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 79, in _setup
    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
  File "/home/mariostg/virtualenv/hello/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 190, in __init__
    mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
  File "/opt/alt/python38/lib64/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    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 973, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'library.settings'
2

Are you trying to do this on Passenger? (Is Channels involved at all here? If not, why is that part of the title?)

If you do a search for “Passenger” here, there have been a couple of discussions where people have provided links to other locations with information that has worked for them.

3

Grrrr Sorry, don’t know whit the word Channel ended up in the title. I meant CPanel.

Is there supposed to be a link at you italicized here?

4

Yea, sorry - I meant to link to the seach widget here - the magnifying glass icon in the menu at the top right - Search results for '' - Django Forum

5

Ahhhh ok I see :). Yes I did, no success, But I just got a message back from my hosting company and this is what they say :

I can see that your account is hosted on a Shared Server. Please note that Django will not run well on a shared hosting platform. If you would like to use Django, I would suggest opting for a Cloud Server. You can check details about Cloud Server here - Managed Canadian Cloud Servers - Web Hosting Canada.

So I reached a dead end.

6

This site is running on a shared hosting platform as well: https://informatics.center. So I do not agree 100% with that. It looks like you have something wrong with path in your settings. Mine works perfectly fine.

7

I turns out I managed to make it work. Issue at this time is I cannot upload a picture. Server seem to just hang there then timeout. Maybe a permission issue, not sure.