Question

I want to rename a project which I created with:

django-admin.py startproject

But after renaming the folder and all the references inside my project, I still can’t get it to start. It says myproject.settings is not in the pythonpath. Since the old project name is neither in the pythonpath i figure that django must keep these names and paths somewhere else. Where does it store this information ?

I know I could just add the path to sys.path while execution, but i want to fix this completely.

If i run:

python manage.py runserver

I get:

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

The name for ‘mysite’ is already the correct one and corrosponds with the folder name. But still it can’t find it.

Any ideas?

PS: I’m running debian.

Answer 1

i’m sorry, but the solution was more simple in my case:

one of the apps had the same name i wanted to give to the project. this resulted in the described error message !

sorry for the trouble.