Deploying Django to AWS - WSGIPath refers to a file that does not exist

Question

I've been struggling with getting Django and AWS to work together. I'm following the tutorial here:

https://realpython.com/blog/python/deploying-a-django-app-to-aws-elastic-beanstalk/

I've been following all the tutorial steps, including using the "eb option" command to change the WSGIPath, but I keep getting the error:

"ERROR: Your WSGIPath refers to a file that does not exist."

As far as I can tell I've been doing everything exactly according to the tutorial.

The relevant part of my config file looks like this:

NumProcesses: '1'
NumThreads: '15'
StaticFiles: /static/=static/
WSGIPath: iotd/iotd/wsgi.py

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Using eb :

eb config

Go to aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python: and change WSGIPath from:

application.py

to

mysite/wsgi.py

With "mysite" being your application name ofcourse

Answer 2

One thing I found when I encountered this error, is that if your repository is a git repository your .ebextensions folder must be tracked and committed otherwise it will not be picked up properly on eb deploy.