Django deployment on Azure web app Windows

Question

I had a Django web app (Python 2.7) project working and running on Azure App services.

I upgraded the Python to Python 3.6 (64 bit), after making sure the project is working on my local host, I deployed it to Azure.

After deployment I am getting this error:

The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred

Searched the internet and I installed the Python 3.6 extension.

In the log streamer I can see that the error is:

"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'"

I compared the new deployment to my old one and the only difference I can see is that in the new deployment, I can't see the virtual env.

Do I need to install the virtual env by myself? and if so, what will happen when I will updated my project and add libraries every time I will to do it manually ?

Answer 1

Based on the error you provided: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django', it seems you have issue with module package installing. You could refer to my work steps and check if you missed something.

Step 1: Follow the official tutorial to create your azure python web app.

Step 2: Add Python extension.

Of course,you could choose your desired version.

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Step 3: Add web.config file and deploy your web app.

<configuration>
 <appSettings>
 <add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="<your project name>.wsgi.application"/>
 <add key="PYTHONPATH" value="D:\home\site\wwwroot"/>
 <add key="WSGI_LOG" value="D:\home\LogFiles\wfastcgi.log"/>
 </appSettings>
 <system.webServer>
 <handlers>
 <add name="PythonHandler" path="handler.fcgi" verb="*" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="D:\home\python361x64\python.exe|D:\home\python361x64\wfastcgi.py" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script"/>
 </handlers>
 <rewrite>
 <rules>
 <rule name="Static Files" stopProcessing="true">
 <conditions>
 <add input="true" pattern="false" />
 </conditions>
 </rule>
 <rule name="Configure Python" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
 <conditions>
 <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/static/.*" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
 </conditions>
 <action type="Rewrite" url="handler.fcgi/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
 </rule>
 </rules>
 </rewrite>
 </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Step 4: Install pip plugin in your python extension environment.

Switch to the Kudu CMD and commands cd Python361x64 and touch get-pip.py and copy the content of the url https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py into the get-pip.py via Edit button, then run python get-pip.py to install the pip tool.

Step 5: Install django module and other modules you want to use.

Above two steps please refer to my previous case:pyodbc on Azure

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Just for summary here, it is sorted out by changing the <add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="<your project name>.wsgi.application"/> to django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application().

• Nir Elbaz: I sorted it out , one comment , i had to change the <add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="<your project name>.wsgi.application"/> to django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() and that solved the last issue i had
• Jay Gong: @NirElbaz Great, it summarized the solution in my answer. If you don't mind, you could mark it for answer for others' reference on the forum.
• Jay Gong: @NirElbaz If you don't mind,you could mark the answer to end this case.Thanks a lot.