How do I stop getting ImportError: Could not import settings 'mofin.settings' when using django with wsgi?

Question

I can\'t get wsgi to import my settings file for my project \'mofin\'.

The list of errors from the apache error log are as follows

mod_wsgi (pid=4001         


        

Answer 1

Another cause of this problem is that you can't name your application the same as another python module. For example I called mine site, little realising that site is already a python module.

You can check this by starting python, and running import site, help(site), and it will show you it isn't using your module. This of course gives you errors when django tries to import site.settings which doesn't exist.