Django newbie deployment question - ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings'

deployment, django, mod-python, python

Solution

Your apache configuration should look like this:

<Location "/mysite">
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
    PythonOption django.root /mysite
    PythonPath "['/root/djangoprojects/', '/root/djangoprojects/mysite','/root/djangoprojects/mysite/polls', '/var/www'] + sys.path"
    PythonDebug On
</Location>

Note that the sole difference is the "mysite.settings". Don't forget to restart apache once the config has changed (apache2ctl restart). See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/ for more info.

Problem

The app runs fine using django internal server however when I use apache + mod_python I get the below error ``` File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 75, in __init__ raise ImportError, "Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e) ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named settings ``` Here is the needed information 1) Project directory: /root/djangoprojects/mysite 2) directory listing of /root/djangoprojects/mysite ``` ls -ltr total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 546 Aug 1 08:34 manage.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 08:34 __init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 Aug 1 08:35 __init__.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2773 Aug 1 08:39 settings.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1660 Aug 1 08:53 settings.pyc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 1 09:04 polls -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 581 Aug 1 10:06 urls.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314 Aug 1 10:07 urls.pyc ``` 3) App directory : /root/djangoprojects/mysite/polls 4) directory listing of /root/djangoprojects/mysite/polls ``` ls -ltr total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514 Aug 1 08:53 tests.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 Aug 1 08:53 models.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 1 08:53 __init__.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 Aug 1 09:02 views.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 375 Aug 1 09:04 views.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Aug 1 09:04 __init__.pyc ``` 5) Anywhere in the filesystem running import django in python interpreter works fine 6) content of httpd.conf ``` <Location "/mysite"> SetHandler python-program PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE settings PythonOption django.root /mysite PythonPath "['/root/djangoprojects/', '/root/djangoprojects/mysite','/root/djangoprojects/mysite/polls', '/var/www'] + sys.path" PythonDebug On </Location> ``` 7) PYTHONPATH variable is set to ``` echo $PYTHONPATH /root/djangoprojects/mysite ``` 8) DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is set to ``` echo $DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings ``` 9) content of sys.path is ``` import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/root/djangoprojects/mysite', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages'] ``` How do I add settings location to sys.path such that it persistent across sessions ? I have read umpteen no of post with people having the same issue it and I have tried a lot completely beats me as to what I need to do. Looking for some help. Thanks in advance Ankur Gupta

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