Django, mod_wsgi, psycopg2 ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading psycopg2 module: No module named _psycopg

Question

I have a Django 1.5, Python 2.7 site running under Apache with mod_wsgi on a CentOS 6.4 server.

I have rebuilt this site using Django 1.6 and Python 3.3. Deploying

Answer 1

The problem was that mod_wsgi was compiled for Python 2.7 and it needed to be recompiled for Python 3.3. I did not find a new mod_wsgi available anywhere as a package so I recompiled it.

Since Python 3 is an alternate install on CentOS 6.4 .configure had a difficult time producing a good Makefile, even passing the --with-python option. I needed to edit Makefile a bit after getting the information from python3.3-config --cflags and also with --ldflags options.

HTH someone in the future.