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Copied django project to shared host from repo - can't find settings

I setup Django successfully on my shared Bluehost account following the tutorial below: http://www.nyayapati.com/srao/2012/08/setup-python-2-7-and-django-1-4-on-bluehost/

I am now having problems with a Django project I have copied from a GitHub repo to my Bluehost directory. I am getting this error when I run python mysite.fcgi in my virtualenv

go-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 134, in __init__
    raise ImportError("Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e))
ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named settings

Any thoughts on where to look for errors? I have checked .htaccess and the mysite.fcgi file in my www directory, the pointer to settings in my manage.py and these seem as they should be. Running python manage.py runserver on the project says there are no errors.

Lee

Solution

  • Thanks to sacrac on the django listserve I got the answer - I needed to make my mysite.fcgi file in my www directory look like this:

    #!/home5/myorg/.virtualenvs/mydjango/bin/python
import sys, os

# Add a custom Python path.
sys.path.insert(0, "/home/<user_name>/projects/")
sys.path.insert(0, "/home/<user_name>/projects/yourproyect")

from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = '<project_name>.settings'
from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
WSGIServer(WSGIHandler()).run()

    Not sure why this works, but it did.