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

In my case, I had a circular import that was causing this error. From settings.py I was importing one function in another module, and from that module I was importing a settings variable. To fix it, instead of directly importing from settings, I did this:

from django.conf import settings