Python wsgi:ssl-error Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available
I just migrated from Amazon ec2 instance to DigitalOcean droplet. Everything seems to be working fine until I ran into the SSL problem when I configure my python app, WSGI and apache2.
Droplet: Ubuntu 16.04 Python version: 2.7.12
VirtualHost file
WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName c123456.com
#translatr.varunmalhotra.xyz
#DocumentRoot /var/www/html
#ErrorDocument 404 /notFound404.html
ErrorLog /var/log/translatr.error.log
CustomLog /var/log/translatr.access.log combined
WSGIDaemonProcess translatrapp python-path=/var/www/html/translatr:/var/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/html/translatr/translatrapp.wsgi
<Directory /var/www/html/translatr>
WSGIProcessGroup translatrapp
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
```
My app uses python requests module to make a GET request.
The requests return 500 and when I check my logs, I could see
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754636 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] request
= requests.get(link, headers=agents, verify=False)
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754641 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 69, in get
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754645 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] return
request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754650 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 50, in reques
t
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754655 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] respons
e = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754659 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 468, in
request
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754664 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] resp =
self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754669 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 597, in
send
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754673 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] history
= [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754678 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 195, in
resolve_redirects
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754683 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] **adapt
er_kwargs
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754687 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 576, in
send
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754692 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] r = ada
pter.send(request, **kwargs)
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754697 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] File "/va
r/www/html/translatr/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 433, in
send
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754702 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] raise S
SLError(e, request=request) │
[Sat Jan 28 10:46:23.754706 2017] [wsgi:error] [pid 6627:tid 139754554279680] SSLError: C│
an't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.
I have searched a lot.
I have tried installing openssl, other conf, but really frustrated.
I don't know how it's working smooth in Amazon ec2 but not in Droplet.
Any help in a good direction would be appreciated. Thanks
Answer
If you installed Python from the source you'll have to rerun
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
AFTER you have installed openssl (I'm assuming through sudo apt install openssl).