Question

I have done everything said on the following page.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Django

but it gives me an error page.

MOD_PYTHON ERROR

ProcessId: 2220 Interpreter:
‘localhost.localdomain’

ServerName:
‘localhost.localdomain’ DocumentRoot:
‘/etc/apache2/htdocs’

URI: ‘/’ Location:
‘/’ Directory: None Filename:
‘/etc/apache2/htdocs’ PathInfo:
‘/’

Phase: ‘PythonHandler’
Handler:
‘django.core.handlers.modpython’

Traceback (most recent call last):

File
“/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py”,
line 1537, in HandlerDispatch
default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent)

File
“/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py”,
line 1229, in _process_target
result = _execute_target(config, req, object, arg)

File
“/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py”,
line 1128, in _execute_target
result = object(arg)

File
“/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/modpython.py”,
line 228, in handler
return ModPythonHandler()(req)

File
“/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/modpython.py”,
line 191, in call
self.load_middleware()

File
“/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py”,
line 33, in load_middleware
for middleware_path in settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

File
“/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/utils/functional.py”,
line 276, in getattr
self._setup()

File
“/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/conf/init.py”,
line 40, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)

File
“/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/conf/init.py”,
line 75, in init
raise ImportError(“Could not import settings ‘%s’ (Is it on
sys.path? Does it have syntax
errors?): %s” % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE,
e))

ImportError: Could not import settings
‘examples.settings’ (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named examples.settings

what could be wrong?

complete noob here.

Answer 1

If you are deploying django project for production under ubuntu server it is recommended to use WSGI. Just fallow the django documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/deployment/modwsgi/

Installing apache with wsgi under ubuntu is easy:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

In case you just want to explore django you do not need to setup apache or anything. Just use manage.py runserver instead.