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I seem to have similar problem as this guy: Django newbie deployment question - ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings' but i cant make heads or tails of it. The server is running Debian. The app runs fine on internal server, however when trying to use apache + mod_python i get the following problem.

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 89, in __init__
    raise ImportError("Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e))

ImportError: Could not import settings 'treeio.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named treeio.settings
  1. Project directory is /var/www/treeio
  2. All files have file permission 777 (i was testing if there were any permission problems)

  3. Content of httpd.conf

    <Location "/treeio/">
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE treeio.settings
    PythonOption django.root /treeio
    PythonDebug On
    PythonPath "['/var/www/treeio'] + sys.path"
</Location>

More info:

echo $PYTHONPATH
:/var/www/treeio/..:/var/www/treeio

echo $DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
treeio.settings

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-1.0.2-py2.6.egg', '/var/www/treeio', '/var/www', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6']

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Your main problem is that you're using mod-python, despite clear warnings that it's deprecated and shouldn't be used for new projects.

But if you really insist on using it, the problem is quite clear: you're adding /var/www/trio to the path, so everything in trio needs to be referenced directly - settings, not trio.settings.

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  • Oh, I didnt know that. What would you recommend using instead of mod-python? Also: I've tried referencing only to settings (instead of treeio.settings) but it didnt work. – tskulbru Dec 20 '11 at 16:07
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    WSGI (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/) is a frequently used deployment strategy. – jvc26 Dec 20 '11 at 16:12
  • Doesnt look like treeio supports wsgi yet(?) atleast there's not any wsgi files in my project dir. – tskulbru Dec 20 '11 at 16:36
  • Correction, I added wsgi module, and also did the following: http://pastebin.com/DQKYbFKa But now i get a "Internal server error" :/ – tskulbru Dec 20 '11 at 16:48
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    What's that `` directive doing there? You don't need that. – Daniel Roseman Dec 20 '11 at 16:50
  • Just tried to follow https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/ :) I removed the stuff and still same thing. – tskulbru Dec 20 '11 at 16:53