title: Django & Heroku - ImportError: No module named gettingstarted.wsgi
body: <p>I'm trying to deploy a Django1.10 app to Heoroku, and I followed <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-app-configuration" rel="noreferrer">this guide</a> to add the required configurations.</p>
  
  <p>After deploy, application crash and I get a <code>No module named gettingstarted.wsgi</code> ImportError - full traceback as follow:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2017-04-15T12:22:03.430119+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `gunicorn gettingstarted.wsgi --log-file -`
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.349515+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [4] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:40627 (4)
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.349596+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [4] [INFO] Using worker: sync
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.352984+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [9] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 9
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355385+00:00 app[web.1]: Traceback (most recent call last):
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.349135+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [4] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 19.7.1
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355386+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 578, in spawn_worker
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355384+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [9] [ERROR] Exception in worker process
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355387+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 126, in init_process
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355387+00:00 app[web.1]:     self.load_wsgi()
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355386+00:00 app[web.1]:     worker.init_process()
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355388+00:00 app[web.1]:     self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355389+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355389+00:00 app[web.1]:     self.callable = self.load()
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355388+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 135, in load_wsgi
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355390+00:00 app[web.1]:     return self.load_wsgiapp()
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355390+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load_wsgiapp
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355390+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 65, in load
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355391+00:00 app[web.1]:   File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 352, in import_app
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355391+00:00 app[web.1]:     return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355392+00:00 app[web.1]:     __import__(module)
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355467+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [9] [INFO] Worker exiting (pid: 9)
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.372618+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [4] [INFO] Shutting down: Master
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.372681+00:00 app[web.1]: [2017-04-15 12:22:05 +0000] [4] [INFO] Reason: Worker failed to boot.
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.355392+00:00 app[web.1]: ImportError: No module named gettingstarted.wsgi
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.499273+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 3
  2017-04-15T12:22:05.521522+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my <strong>settings.py</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  import dj_database_url
  
  
  BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  SECRET_KEY = '...'
  
  DEBUG = True
  
  ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'mrp.apps.MrpConfig',
      'django.contrib.humanize',
      'dal',
      'dal_select2',
      'smart_selects',
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'wkhtmltopdf',
  ]
  
  MIDDLEWARE = [
      'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
  ]
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'py_mrp.urls'
  
  TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
          'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
          'APP_DIRS': True,
          'OPTIONS': {
              'context_processors': [
                  'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                  'django.template.context_processors.request',
                  'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                  'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
              ],
          },
      },
  ]
  
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'py_mrp.wsgi.application'
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
          'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
      }
  }
  
  db_from_env = dj_database_url.config(conn_max_age=500)
  DATABASES['default'].update(db_from_env)
  
  AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
      },
  ]
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'it-it'
  TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
  USE_I18N = True
  USE_L10N = True
  USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True
  USE_TZ = True
  
  WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD = '/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf'
  WKHTMLTOPDF_DEBUG = True
  
  def ABS_DIR(rel):
      return os.path.join(BASE_DIR, rel.replace('/', os.path.sep))
  
  PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
  STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'staticfiles')
  STATIC_URL = ABS_DIR('/static/')
  
  STATICFILES_DIRS = (
      os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static'),
  )
  
  STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'
  
  LOGIN_URL = '/login/'
  LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
  LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my <strong>Procfile</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>web: gunicorn gettingstarted.wsgi --log-file -
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my <strong>wsgi.py</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  from whitenoise.django import DjangoWhiteNoise
  
  os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "py_mrp.settings")
  
  application = get_wsgi_application()
  application = DjangoWhiteNoise(application)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my <strong>requirements.txt</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>appdirs==1.4.3
  astroid==1.4.8
  attrs==15.2.0
  awsebcli==3.7.8
  backports.functools-lru-cache==1.3
  backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.5.0.1
  blessed==1.9.5
  botocore==1.4.54
  cement==2.8.2
  cffi==1.10.0
  click==6.7
  colorama==0.3.7
  configparser==3.5.0
  cryptography==1.2.3
  dj-database-url==0.4.2
  Django==1.10.3
  django-autocomplete-light==3.2.1
  django-smart-selects==1.3.2
  django-wkhtmltopdf==3.1.0
  docker-py==1.7.2
  dockerpty==0.4.1
  docopt==0.6.2
  docutils==0.12
  enum34==1.1.2
  Flask==0.12
  gevent==1.1.1
  greenlet==0.4.11
  gunicorn==19.7.1
  idna==2.0
  ipaddress==1.0.16
  isort==4.2.5
  itsdangerous==0.24
  Jinja2==2.9.4
  jmespath==0.9.0
  lazy-object-proxy==1.2.2
  locustio==0.7.5
  MarkupSafe==0.23
  mccabe==0.5.2
  msgpack-python==0.4.8
  packaging==16.8
  pathspec==0.3.4
  psycopg2==2.7.1
  pyasn1==0.1.9
  pyasn1-modules==0.0.7
  pycparser==2.17
  pylint==1.6.4
  pyOpenSSL==0.15.1
  pyparsing==2.2.0
  pyserial==3.0.1
  python-dateutil==2.5.3
  PyYAML==3.12
  requests==2.9.1
  selenium==3.0.0
  semantic-version==2.5.0
  service-identity==16.0.0
  six==1.10.0
  texttable==0.8.4
  Twisted==16.0.0
  virtualenv==15.1.0
  wcwidth==0.1.7
  websocket-client==0.37.0
  Werkzeug==0.11.15
  whitenoise==3.3.0
  wrapt==1.10.8
  zope.interface==4.1.3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Project structure:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.
  ├── ./db.sqlite3
  ├── ./manage.py
  ├── ./mrp
  │   ├── ./mrp/admin.py
  │   ├── ./mrp/apps.py
  │   ├── ./mrp/forms.py
  │   ├── ./mrp/__init__.py
  │   ├── ./mrp/migrations
  │   ├── ./mrp/models.py
  │   ├── ./mrp/models.pyc
  │   ├── ./mrp/static
  │   │   └── ./mrp/static/mrp
  │   │       ├── ./mrp/static/mrp/custom.css
  │   │       ├── ./mrp/static/mrp/custom.js
  │   │       └── ./mrp/static/mrp/images
  │   ├── ./mrp/templates
  │   ├── ./mrp/tests.py
  │   ├── ./mrp/urls.py
  │   └── ./mrp/views.py
  ├── ./Procfile
  ├── ./py_mrp
  │   ├── ./py_mrp/__init__.py
  │   ├── ./py_mrp/local_settings.py
  │   ├── ./py_mrp/production_settings.py
  │   ├── ./py_mrp/settings.py
  │   ├── ./py_mrp/urls.py
  │   └── ./py_mrp/wsgi.py
  ├── ./requirements.txt
  └── ./templates
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>