Custom configuration path causing deployment error

[Kent Wu]

Following the documentation for deployment pecan framework with Apache+mod_wsgi :
https://pecan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/deployment.html#deployment

This error comes in when you use your custom configuration file path.

code:
application = deploy('your/custom/conf/path')

It will complain about not able to find your application module. You are able to reproduce that in ipython ...

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In [1]: from pecan.deploy import deploy

In [2]: application = deploy('/etc/myApp/myApp.conf')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-f49421abb8e4> in <module>()
----> 1 application = deploy('/etc/myApp/myApp.conf')

/opt/stack/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pecan/deploy.pyc in deploy(config)
      7 WSGI app.
      8 """
----> 9 return load_app(config)

/opt/stack/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pecan/core.pyc in load_app(config, **kwargs)
    201 '''
    202 from .configuration import _runtime_conf, set_config
--> 203 set_config(config, overwrite=True)
    204
    205 for package_name in getattr(_runtime_conf.app, 'modules', []):

/opt/stack/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pecan/configuration.pyc in set_config(config, overwrite)
    250
    251 if isinstance(config, six.string_types):
--> 252 config = conf_from_file(config)
    253 _runtime_conf.update(config)
    254 if config.__file__:

/opt/stack/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pecan/configuration.pyc in conf_from_file(filepath)
    180 imp.load_module(
    181 module_name,
--> 182 *imp.find_module(module_name, [basepath])
    183 )
    184

ImportError: No module named myApp

This error won't show up if I switch it back to v0.8.2
Look into the 'configuration.py', it seems like the new code added in conf_from_file() is causing the issue ...

*imp.find_module(module_name, [basepath])

The line above is not able to find my 'myApp'. The second argument limits the search path to 'basepath' which doesn't contain my application.

[Ryan Petrello (ryan-petrello)]

Pecan configuration files must be valid Python files, and must be importable. Change the file extension of your configuration file from ".conf" back to ".py" as the documentation suggests.