Django Shell No module named settings

Question

I\'ve deployed Django to Apache via mod_wsgi. Django is running fine when hosted from Apache. However, I\'m trying to do some maintenance via manage.py

Answer 1

Since your web app is working, check that you're running manage.py with the same python interpreter that's defined in your .wsgi file (and if you append other directories to sys.path in your .wsgi file, make sure they're in the pythonpath here too).

If you try to import something in your settings file that throws an ImportError, Django tells you settings cannot be imported. Newer versions of django will mention (If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError somehow.) and I've run into this a few times.

If it's not that, maybe try using django-admin.py instead, just in case something has gone wrong in your manage.py file. AFAIK there is no good reason to modify manage.py directly.