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  Deploying Python applications on shared hosting infrastructure like DreamHost often feels like a black box. You follow the tutorials, push your Django or Flask code, and instead of your application, you are greeted by the infamous Phusion Passenger error screen: "An error occurred importing your passenger_wsgi.py" This error is frustratingly vague. It does not provide a stack trace in the browser, and the server logs are often cluttered. However, for 90% of deployments, the issue stems from a single root cause:  Environmental Discrepancy. This guide details the technical root cause of this error and provides a robust, production-grade  passenger_wsgi.py  configuration that ensures your application loads the correct dependencies every time. The Root Cause: System Python vs. Virtual Environment To understand the fix, you must understand how DreamHost runs Python. DreamHost uses  Phusion Passenger  to manage Python processes. When a request hits your domain,...

  There are few things more frustrating in backend development than deploying code that works perfectly on   localhost , only to be greeted by a generic "Incomplete response received from application" error in production. If you are hosting a Python application on A2 Hosting (or any cPanel environment using Phusion Passenger), this error is rarely a bug in your application code. It is almost always a mismatch between how your framework (Django/Flask) expects to start and how the Passenger application server attempts to launch it. This guide provides the definitive technical solution for configuring  passenger_wsgi.py , handling the WSGI interface correctly, and eliminating 404/500 errors on shared Python hosting environments. The Root Cause: How Passenger Interacts with Python To fix the error, you must understand the architecture. When you run  python manage.py runserver  or  flask run  locally, you are utilizing a lightweight, single-threaded develop...