[Django]-Celery and Django – No module named 'django'

Make sure that you are running celery with your virtualenv. The way to check this is with your virtualenv activated, run the command:

which celery

If you see something like:

/usr/bin/celery

Then you have celery installed globally, and you need to uninstall it, and make sure it’s only in your virtualenv.

After uninstalling celery globally, within the virtualenv run which celery again and check.

For me the issue was that I had kombu.transport.django in INSTALLED_APPS. I was initially using Django as the transport agent, but when I upgraded to the latest Celery version, which does not support Django as a transport agent, I still had kombu.transport.django in INSTALLED_APPS. When I removed that reference, I no longer got this error when starting celery.