MySQLdb error when running python server on MacOSX10.6

Question

Running my server (python manage.py runserver) yielded this error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module na

Answer 1

It looks like you have everything installed right, but it can't find libmysqlclient. Have you tried the following?

> sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

Answer 2

Sounds like your just missing the mysql-python dependancy for mysql and Django. Don't know how you installed Django though. Use pip or easy_install to install it.

pip install mysql-python

For Django it is recommended to use PostgreSQL though, for development purposes setting up a sqlite database is much, much easier.