On Jul 4, 9:51 pm, candlerb <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote: > OK, that's what wasn't clear to me in the documentation. For some > reason, I can refer to 'bar' by itself when using runserver, but with > wsgi I need to add /path/to and /path/to/foo to sys.path (or else > refer to 'foo.bar' everywhere).
This has to do with 1/ how Python looks for modules (sys.patth), 2/ the fact that your manage.py from the root of your project (and not from the parent directory) and 3/ some weird things happening with manage.py and not when running behing apache or another web server. wrt/ point #1 and #2: Python looks for modules / packages in the path listed in sys.path, which always start with the current working directory, so when you're running manage.py from within directory "foo", foo is first on your sys.path, and you can directly import 'bar'. When running mod_wsgi, if you only adds "/path/to" in your sys.path, Python will be able to find package "foo" (yes, your Django project IS a Python package - it has a __init__.py file), and from this sub-modules (foo.settings) and sub-packages (foo.bar), but NOT 'bar' (there's no package named 'bar' in your sys.path at this point). You can either add both '/path/to' and '/path/to/foo' in your sys.path and point os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] to 'foo.settings' and settings.ROOT_URLCONF to 'foo.urls', or only add '/path/to/foo' in your sys.path and point os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] to 'settings' and settings.ROOT_URLCONF to 'urls' (but then any use of 'foo.whatever' will break). As far as I'm concern I prefer the second solution - I don't want to have to change anything in my code when I rename my project dir or move an app to another project or whatever. wrt/ point #3, I can only point you to Graham Dumpleton's excellent post: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/03/improved-wsgi-script-for-use-with.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
