Django deployment problem in Apache/mod_wsgi. ImportError: Could not import settings 'site.settings'

Question

When I\'m executing

django-admin.py startproject site

it works.
But if I\'m only copying site folder it doesn\'t work.
Why?

Answer 1

If you have something like this in apache configs:

WSGIScriptAlias /path /base/path/devel/your_project.wsgi

And this inside your_project.wsgi:

sys.path.append('/base/path')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'devel.settings'

Then apache will look at /base/path/devel/settings.py. If you move or copy /base/path/devel to /base/path/production you have to edit DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE at your_project.wsgi pointing to 'production.settings'.