gunicorn.errors.HaltServer: django

Question

I have a django app and trying to set it up with gunicorn first and later with supervisor and nginx.

The app is running with the normal django command perfectly like

Answer 1

You don't showed a full output. It's probably looks like

$ gunicorn elcarweb.wsgi
[2015-10-27 21:01:47 +0000] [5429] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 19.2.1
[2015-10-27 21:01:47 +0000] [5429] [INFO] Listening at: http://127.0.0.1:8000 (5429)
[2015-10-27 21:01:47 +0000] [5429] [INFO] Using worker: sync
[2015-10-27 21:01:47 +0000] [5434] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 5434
[2015-10-27 21:01:47 +0000] [5434] [ERROR] Exception in worker process:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 503, in spawn_worker
    worker.init_process()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 116, in init_process
    self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
    self.callable = self.load()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 65, in load
    return self.load_wsgiapp()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load_wsgiapp
    return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 355, in import_app
    __import__(module)
ImportError: No module named elcarweb.wsgi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 503, in spawn_worker
    worker.init_process()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/base.py", line 116, in init_process
    self.wsgi = self.app.wsgi()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 67, in wsgi
    self.callable = self.load()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 65, in load
    return self.load_wsgiapp()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 52, in load_wsgiapp
    return util.import_app(self.app_uri)
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/util.py", line 355, in import_app
    __import__(module)
ImportError: No module named elcarweb.wsgi
[2015-10-27 21:01:47 +0000] [5434] [INFO] Worker exiting (pid: 5434)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/bin/gunicorn", line 11, in 
    sys.exit(run())
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/wsgiapp.py", line 74, in run
    WSGIApplication("%(prog)s [OPTIONS] [APP_MODULE]").run()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 189, in run
    super(Application, self).run()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/app/base.py", line 72, in run
    Arbiter(self).run()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 170, in run
    self.manage_workers()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 473, in manage_workers
    self.spawn_workers()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 537, in spawn_workers
    time.sleep(0.1 * random.random())
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 210, in handle_chld
    self.reap_workers()
  File "/home/tomek/Elcar/elcarweb/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 455, in reap_workers
    raise HaltServer(reason, self.WORKER_BOOT_ERROR)
gunicorn.errors.HaltServer: 

Last trackback is almost the same, but before You see required informations:

ImportError: No module named elcarweb.wsgi

If You see this error, then solution is run gunicorn with --chdir=/your/app/dir parameter.