LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is the correct one to use when running from your account (not to go into the discussion as to why some people think LD_LIBRARY_PATH is evil), as evidenced when you run python on the command line.
In the case of Django running through a web server, the web server is not picking up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting you are using in your own personal account. The reason editing ld.so.conf works, is because you are globally setting the library path to search. Since ld.so.conf is a 'global' setting, your Django application (python) picks it up from the system and finds the library. Another way (what I do) is to compile Python with the MySQL lib directory (--with-libs configuration argument) so that Python can find the library whenever it runs (no matter who's running it, me -- or the web server). On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 10:18 -0700, NoCleverName wrote: > > This is the author again. Of course, 10 minutes after I post a question, I > find the solution. (After hours of searching beforehand) > > If anyone else has this problem, the solution for me was: > > edit /etc/ld.so.conf > add the line: /usr/local/mysql/lib > > then run /etc/ldconfig > > Fixed the problem right up. No idea why or how this worked, but everything > is working now. > > > > NoCleverName wrote: > > > > So I'm having an issue getting Django to work with MySQL. After I log > > into my Django site, I get the following error: > > > > ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: > > libmysqlclient_r.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > > directory > > > > The error is being thrown from > > site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py line 13. > > > > Unlike a lot of similar posts on the message board (I have searched), I > > have MySQLdb installed. The lines in question are just 'import MySQLdb as > > Database' and the associated try/catch throwing the error. When I run > > python from a command line and type 'import MySQLdb' it imports just fine. > > I added to to the root's .bash_profile and the .bashrc of the 'mysql' > > user. The file definitely exists (in /usr/local/mysql/lib) > > > > I used the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the two profiles to make the > > 'import MySQLdb' statement work, is that the correct environment variable? > > > > As a note, I installed mysql from the .tar.gz files and MySQLpython from > > the .tar.gz files as well. I can't use any sort of package manager to > > install this stuff. > > > -- Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation Email: a...@eng.mc.xerox.com Disclaimer: Any/All views expressed here have been proven to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
