django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module:
django, mysql-python, python
Solution
My libmysqlclient.18.dylib was located in /usr/local/mysql/lib/ but my system was looking for it in /usr/lib/. I ended up creating a symbolic link of libmysqlclient.18.dylib in /usr/lib which fixed the problem.
1.) Make sure that libmysqlclient.18.dylib exists in /usr/local/mysql/lib/.
Open your shell.
sudo -s
ls /usr/local/mysql/lib/ | grep libmysqlclient.18.dylib
You should see the file:
libmysqlclient.18.dylib
If not, search your system for the location of the file:
find / -name libmysqlclient.18.dylib
2.) Create a symbolic link of libmysqlclient.18.dylib in /usr/lib
Enter the following command in your shell:
ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
If your libmysqlclient.18.dylib file wasn't located in /usr/local/mysql/lib replace the first path with the proper path to libmysqlclient.18.dylib.
Hopefully that helps.
Problem
I am following the django tutorial, Many have asked the question but I think my situation is bit unique because after installing python-mysql I still get this error when I try to do python manage.py syncdb, I am in a virtualenv since I use macports to manage my python installation I created my virtualenv ``` virtualenv code/vdjango --no-site-packages --python=/opt/local/bin/python ``` prior to this using macports I install django `py27-django`, but after creating my virtualenv I thought its better that I install django on to virtualenv so I used `pip install django==1.5` According to django tutorial I edited my settings.py file and then execute the python manage.py syncdb and I end up with following error: ``` [~/code/vdjango/newsite]$python manage.py syncdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 453, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 272, in fetch_command klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 77, in load_command_class module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name)) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module __import__(name) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 8, in <module> from django.core.management.sql import custom_sql_for_model, emit_post_sync_signal File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 9, in <module> from django.db import models File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 40, in <module> backend = load_backend(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE']) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 34, in __getattr__ return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 93, in __getitem__ backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE']) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 27, in load_backend return import_module('.base', backend_name) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module __import__(name) File "/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 17, in <module> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: dlopen(/Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Users/mac-pro/code/vdjango/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so Reason: image not found ``` To confirm that I have install python-mysql package I ran the pip install again, ``` (vdjango)mac-pro@localhost:[~/code/vdjango/newsite]$pip install python-mysqldb Downloading/unpacking python-mysqldb Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement python-mysqldb No distributions at all found for python-mysqldb Storing complete log in /Users/mac-pro/.pip/pip.log ``` So whats happening here? Looks like I have everything that I need to go further with the tutorial but some how python/django is complaining about not having mysqldb.