Cannot run in a django project on apache

[pkumercury]

Hi there, I'm having some issues when attempting to use moviepy in a Django project on apache.
I'm using moviepy in a model to create thumbnail for uploading video. It works fine with django 'runserver' command, but when the project is deployed on apache, I cannot get any HttpResponse from any url, and there is nothing in apache error log. But if I delete the line 'from moviepy.editor import *', other urls can be visited.

Is there a known issue? Or is there something I need to do with apache or ffmpeg?

Thanks.

[tburrows13]

Not a known issue AFAIK. I'm afraid I have no experience with Django, but some of the other maintainers may be able to help.

[pkumercury]

@Gloin1313 Thanks for reply.
I have started a new project to detect whether there is a conflict with other installed packages.
Here is my models.py:

from django.db import models
from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip

class Video(models.Model):
    pass

and here is my project wsgi.py:

import os
from os.path import join, dirname, abspath
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
import sys

PROJECT_DIR = dirname(dirname(abspath(__file__)))
sys.path.insert(0, PROJECT_DIR)

os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "DjangoTest.settings"

application = get_wsgi_application()

I didn't change any other things in project or app except for adding app to 'INSTALLED_APPS' and migrate.

My apache site configure:

<VirtualHost *:8001>

    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/wen/workspace/Pycharm/DjangoTest/DjangoTest/wsgi.py
  
    <Directory /home/wen/workspace/Pycharm/DjangoTest/DjangoTest>
    <Files wsgi.py>
        Require all granted
    </Files>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Still I cannot visit the django admin site without comment from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip , and in a normal python script moviepy runs well.

[Zulko]

The general rule is "don't use moviepy.editor in production". Moviepy.editor is a special module of moviepy which loads ALL the features and tries starting Pygame to allow live previews, it is a bit heavy and could become heavier in the future. Instead, try importing everything you need separately from its location:

from moviepy.video.VideoClip import VideoClip

[pkumercury]

@Zulko Thanks, very helpful.
For my case, add this

from moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip import *

is enough.

[tburrows13]

Is your problem solved now?

[pkumercury]

@Gloin1313 Yeah, thanks for your help : )