[Django]-Why can't it find my celery config file?

Now in Celery 4.1 you can solve that problem by that code(the easiest way):

import celeryconfig

from celery import Celery

app = Celery()
app.config_from_object(celeryconfig)

For Example small celeryconfig.py :

BROKER_URL = 'pyamqp://'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://localhost'
CELERY_ROUTES = {'task_name': {'queue': 'queue_name_for_task'}}

Also very simple way:

from celery import Celery

app = Celery('tasks')

app.conf.update(
    result_expires=60,
    task_acks_late=True,
    broker_url='pyamqp://',
    result_backend='redis://localhost'
)

Or Using a configuration class/object:

from celery import Celery

app = Celery()

class Config:
    enable_utc = True
    timezone = 'Europe/London'

app.config_from_object(Config)
# or using the fully qualified name of the object:
#   app.config_from_object('module:Config')

Or how was mentioned by setting CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE

import os
from celery import Celery

#: Set default configuration module name
os.environ.setdefault('CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE', 'celeryconfig')

app = Celery()
app.config_from_envvar('CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE')

Also see:

• Create config: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/application.html#configuration
• Configuration fields: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/configuration.html

I had a similar problem with my tasks module. A simple

# celery config is in a non-standard location
import os
os.environ['CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE'] = 'mypackage.celeryconfig'

in my package’s __init__.py solved this problem.

Make sure you have celeryconfig.py in the same location you are running ‘celeryd’ or otherwise make sure its is available on the Python path.

you can work around this with the environment… or, use –config: it requires

1. a path relative to CELERY_CHDIR from /etc/defaults/celeryd
2. a python module name, not a filename.

The error message could probably use these two facts.