Just to be sure, can you explicitly pull the latest image to make sure you have 
it, in case you picked up an intermediate image when I was quickly making 
changes and had broken something. Then rebuild your derived image.

BTW, what is PATH environment variable set to in both cases, shell and script?

Graham


> On 25 Nov 2015, at 12:24 PM, Collin Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Other than the mentioned sys.path.append(), there are only module imports 
> (all of which are from the standard library).
> 
> Here is sys.path when running the default mod_wsgi docker command (docker run 
> image-name):
> ['/app/Middleware', '/usr/local/python/lib/python27.zip', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/lib-old', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/opt/C3STEM/Middleware/']
> 
> Here is sys.path when running the script using Python from the shell in the 
> container:
> ['/app/Middleware', '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python27.zip', 
> '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python2.7', 
> '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', 
> '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', 
> '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/lib-old', 
> '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', 
> '/.whiskey/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages', 
> '/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/opt/C3STEM/Middleware/']
> 
> It looks to me like the first case is not using the virtual environment, 
> although I'm no Python expert.
> 
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 7:04:46 PM UTC-6, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> What do you have at the start of c3stemserver.py besides:
> 
> sys.path.append('/opt/C3STEM/Middleware/‘)
> 
> Are there any other updates sys.path or does the code do anything with 
> site.addsitedir()?
> 
> What is sys.path just before attempt module in real application and is that 
> different to what you see in python from shell?
> 
> Graham
> 
>> On 25 Nov 2015, at 11:29 AM, Collin Jackson <collinj...@ <>gmail.com 
>> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote:
>> 
>> Actually, it's the opposite case. When I get into the container and run the 
>> script directly with Python, the import succeeds.
>> 
>> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 6:24:08 PM UTC-6, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>> Can you clarify that you are saying that when you get into the container 
>> with mod_wsgi-docker-shell and run Python interpreter directly, or by 
>> running a script manually, that the imports fail there as well.
>> 
>> If yes, can you from the interpreter under that shell, show what sys.path is 
>> for the interpreter, plus what path you find the cherrypy package installed 
>> under in the system. Give a ‘ls -las’ of the parent and package directory 
>> where cherrypy is installed.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Graham
>> 
>>> On 24 Nov 2015, at 3:52 AM, Collin Jackson <collinj...@ <>gmail.com 
>>> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Changing the working directory solved the issue with relative file imports, 
>>> so thank you for that input.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, I am now running into the problem that I originally thought 
>>> I was having. My script is failing during import of cherrypy, even though I 
>>> have confirmed that it was installed both globally and in the virtual 
>>> environment in the docker container. When I run my wsgi script using python 
>>> (i.e. python script-name), I do not encounter the import issue. However, I 
>>> tried running the script using mod_wsgi-express start-server script-name 
>>> and again ran into the import issue (in both cases, I followed your advice 
>>> above to get a shell inside the container). Additionally, I commented out 
>>> the line that imports cherrypy to see if it was a problem specific to 
>>> cherrypy, but I also have the same issue later in the script when I try to 
>>> import bson.
>>> 
>>> In case it may be helpful, I have included the output and stacktrace for 
>>> the ImportError:
>>> $ docker run -it --rm wsgi
>>> Server URL         : http://localhost/ <http://localhost/>
>>> Server Root        : /tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:80:0
>>> Server Conf        : /tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:80:0/httpd.conf
>>> Error Log File     : /dev/stderr (warn)
>>> Startup Log File   : /dev/stderr
>>> Request Capacity   : 5 (1 process * 5 threads)
>>> Request Timeout    : 60 (seconds)
>>> Queue Backlog      : 100 (connections)
>>> Queue Timeout      : 45 (seconds)
>>> Server Capacity    : 20 (event/worker), 20 (prefork)
>>> Server Backlog     : 500 (connections)
>>> Locale Setting     : en_US.UTF-8
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:00.970167 2015] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 19:tid 
>>> 140041923430144] AH00489: Apache/2.4.17 (Unix) mod_wsgi/4.4.21 
>>> Python/2.7.10 configured -- resuming normal operations
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:00.970530 2015] [core:notice] [pid 19:tid 
>>> 140041923430144] AH00094: Command line: 'httpd (mod_wsgi-express) -f 
>>> /tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:80:0/httpd.conf -E /dev/stderr -D 
>>> MOD_WSGI_MPM_ENABLE_EVENT_MODULE -D MOD_WSGI_MPM_EXISTS_EVENT_MODULE -D 
>>> MOD_WSGI_MPM_EXISTS_WORKER_MODULE -D MOD_WSGI_MPM_EXISTS_PREFORK_MODULE -D 
>>> FOREGROUND'
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.039537 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>> mod_wsgi (pid=21): Target WSGI script 
>>> '/tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:80:0/handler.wsgi' cannot be loaded as Python 
>>> module.
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.039853 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>> mod_wsgi (pid=21): Exception occurred processing WSGI script 
>>> '/tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:80:0/handler.wsgi'.
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.040227 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.040487 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>>   File "/tmp/mod_wsgi-localhost:80:0/handler.wsgi", line 94, in <module>
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.040744 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>>     recorder_directory=recorder_directory)
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.041024 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>>   File 
>>> "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mod_wsgi/server/__init__.py",
>>>  line 1267, in __init__
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.042054 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>>     exec(code, self.module.__dict__)
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.042338 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>>   File "/app/Middleware/c3stemserver.py", line 15, in <module>
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.042829 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>>     import cherrypy
>>> [Mon Nov 23 16:05:01.043083 2015] [wsgi:error] [pid 21:tid 140041923430144] 
>>> ImportError: No module named cherrypy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 4:30:25 PM UTC-6, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>>> If your application is in a sub directory, imports expect to work relative 
>>> to that for modules, and even perhaps you expect that to be the current 
>>> working directory so relative file access work, you will want to tell 
>>> mod_wsgi what the home working directory should be.
>>> 
>>> Thus try:
>>> 
>>> CMD [ "--working-directory=Middleware", "Middleware/c3stemserver.py"]
>>> 
>>> Make sure no strange quotes in that when doing a cut and paste.
>>> 
>>> Graham
>>> 
>>>> On 21 Nov 2015, at 7:31 AM, Collin Jackson <collinj...@ <>gmail.com 
>>>> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The script file is in a sub-directory (called "Middleware"), so the 
>>>> Dockerfile CMD is CMD ["Middleware/c3stemserver.py"]. 
>>>> 
>>>> The script does modify sys.path. This line is in the script before the 
>>>> import sys.path.append('/opt/C3STEM/Middleware/').
>>>> 
>>>> On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 3:06:44 PM UTC-6, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>>>> Which directory is the wsgi script file in? The top level directory of 
>>>> your project or a sub directory?
>>>> 
>>>> What do you have for the CMD in your Dockerfile?
>>>> 
>>>> Does your WSGI script file attempt to make modifications to sys.path in 
>>>> any way?
>>>> 
>>>> Graham
>>>> 
>>>> On 21 Nov 2015, at 3:43 AM, Collin Jackson <collinj...@ <>gmail.com 
>>>> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I initially wrote a couple of replies to your comments, but I discovered 
>>>>> some additional important information, so I just deleted those and 
>>>>> decided to start over instead of cluttering the response chain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm new to the code base I'm working with and didn't realize that the 
>>>>> ImportError was being thrown for an include of a local file, not a 
>>>>> package (so sorry for the confusion). The file to be imported is in the 
>>>>> same directory as the wsgi script. Does the wsgi script get copied to 
>>>>> another directory before running?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 4:31:24 AM UTC-6, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>>>>> Sorry for separate messages and not adding to discussion. Don't mean to 
>>>>> confuse you. Best I can do right now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If your Dockerfile has USER line in it try commenting it out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is not a permanent solution but will help isolate whether is 
>>>>> permissions issue on writing to application code directory
>>>>> 
>>>>> Graham
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 20 Nov 2015, at 2:34 PM, Collin Jackson <[email protected] <>> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm running mod-wsgi-docker:python-2.7-onbuild and have listed my 
>>>>>> requirements in requirements.txt. During build, I can see that the 
>>>>>> packages are installed properly, but when I try to run the image, it 
>>>>>> crashes on the first non-Standard Library import with an ImportError 
>>>>>> exception. I can't figure out what's happening and it's not exactly easy 
>>>>>> to poke around inside the container to see what's going on. I noticed 
>>>>>> that a virtual environment is created prior to installing the packages 
>>>>>> (here 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi-docker/blob/master/2.7/build.sh#L87>),
>>>>>>  but I imagine that if this is the issue, other users would have the 
>>>>>> same issue. Any ideas?
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