On Aug 5, 10:27 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 17:12 -0700, Steve1234 wrote:
> > I am trying to setup Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu to run Django
> > content. I generated a minimum project using "django-admin.py
> > startproject mysite" creating the project in my home folder. Running
> > the development server works and shows the "get started" page. But
> > the "production" setup returns "Internal Server Error". The Apache
> > error.log file reports:
>
> > ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings' (Is it on
> > sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named
> > mysite.settings
>
> > My /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file has one line:
> > WSGIScriptAlias / /home/steve/mysite/apache/django.wsgi
>
> > And the file /home/steve/mysite/apache/django.wsgi has 6 lines:
> > import os
> > import sys
> > sys.path.append('/home/steve/mysite')
> > os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
> > import django.core.handlers.wsgi
> > application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
>
> > Any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> You've set the Python path incorrectly.
>
> This is easily the most common error people make and I'm surprised you
> didn't find it in the searches you did in the archives before posting.
> This isn't anything Django specific. The Python path contains the
> directories from which imports are started. So if you want to import
> something called "mysite" it has to exist inside one of the directories
> on the Python path.
And it is highlighted in:
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango
What seems to happen though is people only look at the page in Django
documentation which isn't so clear, or rely on some arbitrary persons
blog to work out how to set it up. :-(
Graham
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