I'm very new to working with Flask-
according to http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/deploying/mod_wsgi/
under the heading "Working with Virtual Environments" I read:
For Python 3 add the following lines to the top of your .wsgi file:
activate_this = '/path/to/env/bin/activate_this.py' with open(activate_this) as file_: exec(file_.read(), dict(__file__=activate_this)) This sets up the load paths according to the settings of the virtual environment.Keep in mind that the path has to be absolute.
to activate my venv I use the command from linux:
my_env/bin/activate
I looked in my my_env/bin/ directory and do not see any .py files. Am I suppose to create a .py file that in my_env/bin/ that will be called by the .wsgi file?
I was having the same issue, the solution is actually quite simple. You need to install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 instead of libapache2-mod-wsgi. The latter is for python 2.
You can then activate your environment by adding the environment's site-packages to the system path. For example, for me (using venv) I can do this by adding the following line to my *.wgsi file.
sys.path.insert(0,"/path/to/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages")