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

In my case the wsgi.py file was working when the system was running normally, but I was getting the ImportError when trying to do a manual manage.py command like migrate or collectstatic.

I checked wsgi.py for the way it imports the settings and noticed that it first adds the settings path to the sys.path as follows:

import sys
sys.path.append('/opt/server/settings')

I added that to the top of the manage.py and it works.