ImportError - Django和mod_wsgi

Question

I'm attempting to set up mod_wsgi with Django and Apache locally on a Fedora 16 machine. I run into the error:

ImportError: Could not import settings 'cat.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named cat.settings

I realize there are a few other questions about this - but their solutions have not fixed this error. I appreciate any help or ideas you may have regarding the message!

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Here's a bit of insight into my set-up:

• Receiving 500 Internal Server Error at localhost.
• My directory is: /home/name/src/django/animals/cat (where the cat directory contains an __init__.py and a settings.py file.
• I have one application folder in the cat directory, named catOne - it also contains an __init__.py file.
• My wsgi file looks like this:

import os
import sys

sys.path.append('/home/name/src/django/animals/cat')
sys.path.append('/home/name/src/django/animals')

sys.stderr.write('\n'.join(sys.path))

root = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')
sys.path.insert(0, root)

packages = os.path.join(root, 'environ/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
sys.path.insert(0, packages)

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'cat.settings'

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

• The permissions on the settings and init files are 755, but I've also tried 777 without success.

• My sys.path looks like:

/var/www
/usr/lib/python27.zip
/usr/lib/python2.7
/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gst-0.10
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info
/home/name/src/django/animals/cat
/home/name/src/django/animals

Thanks again for your help!

Answer 1

SELinux was causing an issue accessing the file. This probably isn't the best way, but I disabled it entirely by editing the /etc/selinux/config file. Change SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled.

Again, there are probably finer grain controls for changing SELinux so disable at your own peril.