Apache mod_wsgi error: ImportError: No module named django.core.handlers.wsgi

Question

I am using Python 2.7 with mod_python 3.3.1 and mod_wsgi 3.3.

I get an Internal Server Error and this stack trace in the apache logs:

[Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client 83.244.243.242]     import django.core.handlers.wsgi [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client
83.244.243.242] ImportError: No module named django.core.handlers.wsgi [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client
83.244.243.242] mod_wsgi (pid=4463): Target WSGI script '/home/one/codebase/campman/wsgi_handler.py' cannot be loaded as Python module. [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client 83.244.243.242] mod_wsgi (pid=4463): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/one/codebase/campman/wsgi_handler.py'. [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client 83.244.243.242] Traceback (most recent call last): [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client
83.244.243.242]   File "/home/one/codebase/campman/wsgi_handler.py", line 13, in <module> [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client
83.244.243.242]     import django.core.handlers.wsgi [Thu Apr 21 10:25:37 2011] [error] [client
83.244.243.242] ImportError: No module named django.core.handlers.wsgi

Solution

You may need to tell your WSGI handler where to look for site-packages:

import site
site.addsitedir('/path/to/lib/python2.7/site-packages')

Comments

[tfitzgerald]

How about posting the contents of wsgi_handler.py?

[bigmac]

I think the problem is that I have installed Python 2.7 and the mod_wsgi is looking at Python2.5 site-packages. Is there some way I can change this?

[Caleb]

Upgrade mod_wsgi to a version that knows what to do with Python 2.7. If you upgrade all the packages in your distribution, this shouldn't happen. If you have manually installed python without using your distros packages, you might have to do the same for everything that depends on it.