Baby steps to a solution with django and mod-wsgi on os x

Question

I'm running apache / os x and serving up localhost pages to test django on my laptop. I've already verified all the following

• python is working fine and up to date (2.5.1)

• django available to python and up to date (1,1,0, 'final', 0)

• mod_wsgi module is loaded among apache modules in my apache config - Check!

• path to django application is in vhost.conf with proper permissions - OK!

• mod_wsgi vhost.conf tested and working fine in the intended django application directory - test application through localhost pulls up 200 OK, 'hello world!'

• django default application has been created using 'django-admin.py startproject mysite'

• django application works fine on port 8000 using development server - OK!

• path to the new django application (called mysite) is on python path - verified!

All this is verified and when I run the wsgi script with DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE settings.py and load the django app, I still get 'could not import settings 'mysite.settings' etc.

Since this seems to cover the basic troubleshooting, are there any further steps I could take to find out the problem?

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Python path is valid, verified. The django development server runs fine with the command line on port 8000.

The apache config has the typical module loaded: LoadModule wsgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_wsgi.so

vhost.conf is included from apache config as follows

NameVirtualHost: *.80

    <Directory /users/useracct/scripts/python>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>
    WSGIDaemonProcess localhost user=username group=staff threads=25
    WSGIProcessGroup localhost

    WSGIScriptAlias /mysite /users/useracct/Sites/mysite/mysite.wsgi

    <Directory /users/useracct/Sites/mysite/>
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    DocumentRoot /Users/useracct/Sites/

Virtualenv is not set up with this account, so that is one less possible cause.

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and the wsgi script file (trying to keep it minimal):

---

import os, sys
path = '/users/usracct/sites/mysite'
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

Answer 1

Try adding /users/useracct/Sites/ a to your pythonpath in your wsgi file:

import os
import sys
.....
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + '/..')
....