Unable to get the locale encoding in Ubuntu 12.04, Apache/2.4.7, libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, Python 3.4, Django 1.86

[Abhijit Nandy]

I am trying to setup a simple Django app using this tutorial:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-django-applications-with-apache-and-mod_wsgi-on-ubuntu-14-04

My configuration is:

Ubuntu 12.04, Apache/2.4.7, libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, Python 3.4, Django 1.86

I keep getting the following error in the apache log whenever I try to access the server using its IP:

    ImportError: No module named 'encodings'

    Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

    ImportError: No module named 'encodings'

    [Sat Nov 07 01:26:56.505373 2015] [core:notice] [pid 20920:tid 140075144152960] AH00051: child pid 21716 exit signal Aborted (6), possible coredump in /etc/apache2

    [Sat Nov 07 01:26:56.505478 2015] [core:notice] [pid 20920:tid 140075144152960] AH00051: child pid 21717 exit signal Aborted (6), possible coredump in /etc/apache2

    Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

    ImportError: No module named 'encodings'

My virtual hosts file looks as follows:

    <VirtualHost *:80>

    

    ServerAdmin 

        ServerName example.com

        ServerAlias www.example.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html

        

        Alias /static /home/admin/myproject/static

        <Directory /home/admin/myproject/static>

            Require all granted

        </Directory>

        

        <Directory /home/admin/myproject/myproject>

            <Files wsgi.py>

                Require all granted

            </Files>

        </Directory>

        

        WSGIDaemonProcess myproject python-path=/home/admin/myproject:/home/admin/myproject/myprojectenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages

        WSGIProcessGroup myproject

        WSGIScriptAlias / /home/admin/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py    

   

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined    

   

    </VirtualHost>  

   

Note: There were no errors while setting up Django in the virtualenv. It may be a problem with the PythonPath, buI think I have specified it correctly via the python-path option in the WSGIDaemonProcess directive.