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Asked: 2026-05-13T13:30:28+00:00

I’m trying to deploy my Django application to an Apache2 based server with mod_python.

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I’m trying to deploy my Django application to an Apache2 based server with mod_python. I’ve set the handlers right and made the configuration to make mod_python work with my project. My project implements a custom auth backend to connect my users to twitter, and my backend implementation is on:

myproject
|- backends/

directory.Everything seems to be working fine, my pages load and I can make read/write operations properly. But whenever I try to login with my Twitter account, application fires an exception telling me:

Error importing authentication backend backends.twitteroauth: “No module named backends.twitteroauth”

In my settings.py, I’m registering my backend as 

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
   'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
   'myproject.backends.twitteroauth.TwitterBackend',
)

What is the problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Removing database solved my problem. As far as I can guess, if a user is logged, his corresponding login backend is kept as a session variable on the database. My settings.py file was

    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
   'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
   'backends.twitteroauth.TwitterBackend',
)

    before I made the correction. Changing settings.py and restarting the application was simply not enough. You have to remove session related records from db too.

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