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 think you need to have a trailing forward slash on that its what I have to do in my wsgi script in apache before I load up django.

import os
import sys
sys.path.append('/home/django/mofin/trunk/')
sys.path.append('/home/django/mofin/trunk/mofin/')
print >> sys.stderr, sys.path
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mofin.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

In my case

import os
import sys
if os.uname()[1] == 'vivien':
    sys.path.append('/home/www/sitebuilder.blacknight.ie/web/')
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'gibo.dev_settings'
elif os.uname()[1] == 'thingy':
    sys.path.append('/home/www/sitebuilder.blacknight.ie/web/')
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'gibo.dev_settings'
else:
    sys.path.append('/home/www/sitebuilder.blacknight.ie/web/')
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'gibo.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

Answer 2

At first look I'd say the python path is wrong but compared to interactive shell it looks ok. So maybe try this:

from django.core.management import setup_environ
from mofin import settings

setup_environ(settings)

Answer 3

This can also happen if you have an application (subdirectory to the project with an init file in it) named the same thing as the project. Your settings.py file may be in your project folder, but it seems that a part of the django system looks first for a module inside the project by the same name as the project and when it can't find a settings.py in there, it fails with a misleading message.

-uniquename1

---settings.py

---manage.py

---application1

-----file.py

-----file2.py

---uniquename1  (problem, rename this to some other unique name)

-----file.py

-----file2.py

Just something else to check for anyone else having this problem. Applies to Django 1.3 and probably others.

Answer 4

Possible problem:

you forgot the __init__.py file, which must be in your project and in all directories which you consider a python module for import.

Other thing you could try is to add the path directly into the manage.py file, like :

import sys

...
...

sys.path.insert(0, '/home/django/mofin/trunk')

I hope it helps

Answer 5

I was going to say that you can just insert/append your project directory to your sys.path in your wsgi file but if your settings file is at

/home/django/mofin/trunk/mofin/settings.py

Then you should be good there.

Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?

That pretty much sums up what you are looking for.

Interesting that the error propagates though:

for middleware_path in settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

but you have what appears to be the exact default.

You might want to check which python interpreter is pointed to by wsgi. Are you intending to use a virtualenv but wsgi is looking at your system install?

You can also set the user and group that wsgi is running under. I use something like:

WSGIDaemonProcess mysite.com user=skyl group=skyl processes=n threads=N python-path=/home/skyl/pinax/pinax-env2/lib/python2.6/site-packages

Answer 6

I just had this error and the solution was to enable my virtual environment via myvenv/source/activate.