Having trouble getting papermerge to run in apache2

Hi, thanks for taking the time to look into this issue.

I am trying to get apache running following the guide at: https://papermerge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup/server_configurations.html

I am receiving a 500 error when attempting to browse to the web interface. I receive the following errors in apache error.log.

Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks 😃

[Tue Dec 01 03:12:03.128646 2020] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 52070:tid 139872824998976] AH00489: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) mod_wsgi/4.7.1 Python/3.8 configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Dec 01 03:12:03.128904 2020] [core:notice] [pid 52070:tid 139872824998976] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' [Tue Dec 01 03:12:07.840581 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 52071:tid 139872689960704] [client 192.168.1.8:22265] mod_wsgi (pid=52071): Failed to exec Python script file '/var/www/papermerge/config/wsgi.py'. [Tue Dec 01 03:12:07.845902 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 52071:tid 139872689960704] [client 192.168.1.8:22265] mod_wsgi (pid=52071): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/var/www/papermerge/config/wsgi.py'. [Tue Dec 01 03:12:07.861047 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 52071:tid 139872689960704] [client 192.168.1.8:22265] Traceback (most recent call last): [Tue Dec 01 03:12:07.861138 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 52071:tid 139872689960704] [client 192.168.1.8:22265] File "/var/www/papermerge/config/wsgi.py", line 3, in <module> [Tue Dec 01 03:12:07.861163 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 52071:tid 139872689960704] [client 192.168.1.8:22265] from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application [Tue Dec 01 03:12:07.861238 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 52071:tid 139872689960704] [client 192.168.1.8:22265] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'

[jorisvc]

Ubuntu is based on Debian so that should normally work. The steps are an installation from scratch. Some path’s can differ with your installation. I have installed Papermerge in /opt/papermerge. The apache user is www-data and the Papermerge configuration file is in /etc/ Papermerge is running as a virtualhost in apache on port 8060

Install GIT apt install git -y

Clone git clone --branch v1.5.0 https://github.com/ciur/papermerge.git /opt/papermerge

install SUDO apt install sudo -y

install dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential \
    python3-pip \
    python3-venv \
    git \
    imagemagick \
    poppler-utils \
    pdftk \
    tesseract-ocr \
    tesseract-ocr-eng \
    tesseract-ocr-deu \
    tesseract-ocr-fra \
    tesseract-ocr-spa \
    tesseract-ocr-nld -y

Prepare python virtual environment

cd /opt/papermerge
python3 -m venv .venv --system-site-packages

Activate it source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies pip3 install -r requirements/base.txt

./manage.py migrate

./manage.py createsuperuser

Copy example configuration file to /etc cp /opt/papermerge/papermerge.conf.py.example /etc/papermerge.conf.py

Permissions for Apache chown www-data:www-data /etc/papermerge.conf.py

chmod 770 /etc/papermerge.conf.py

Create static cd /opt/papermerge source .venv/bin/activate ./manage.py collectstatic

Install APACHE apt install apache2 -y

Install WSGI module apt install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 -y

Create virtualhost for apache vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/papermerge.conf

<VirtualHost *:8060>
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

 ServerName **YOUR SERVER NAME**
    ServerRoot /opt/papermerge

    Alias /static/ /opt/papermerge/static/
    <Directory  /opt/papermerge/static>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>


    Alias /media/ /opt/papermerge/media/
    <Directory  /opt/papermerge/media>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /opt/papermerge/config/>
        <Files wsgi.py>
            Require all granted
        </Files>
    </Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/papermerge/config/wsgi.py

</VirtualHost>
WSGIPythonHome /opt/papermerge/.venv/
WSGIPythonPath /opt/papermerge/

Create link to activate virtualhost sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/papermerge.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

Add listening port 8060 to apache vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Add 1 line below Listen 80 Listen 8060

Restart apache systemctl restart apache2

Test

[new0ne]

I was facing the very same issue, after i entered my login credentials i ran into that “attempt to write a readonly database”. The fix for me was to create a copy of the papermerge.conf.py into my servers /etc/ folder. for a unknown reason the file in the projectfolder was ignored. now its running and using my mysql server: finally. @doughnet: thanks for sharing your way through it, when reading what you did i noticed that i didn’t place my config there! GL everyone