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

I had a similar problem, solved it with the following snippet in my python:

ALLDIRS = ['/var/www/MarkerDB/']

import sys 
import site 

# Remember original sys.path.
prev_sys_path = list(sys.path) 

# Add each new site-packages directory.
for directory in ALLDIRS:
  site.addsitedir(directory)

# Reorder sys.path so new directories at the front.
new_sys_path = [] 
for item in list(sys.path): 
    if item not in prev_sys_path: 
        new_sys_path.append(item) 
        sys.path.remove(item) 
sys.path[:0] = new_sys_pat

Source: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/VirtualEnvironments#Application_Environments