Home/ Questions/Q 6052547
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-23T07:56:26+00:00

Running my server (python manage.py runserver) yielded this error: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module:

  • 0

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

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

I attempted the winning solution on this page with no avail: Django + MySQL on Mac OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard

And then moved on to try Thierry Lam (5 votes) on Django – MySQLdb: Symbol not found: _mysql_affected_rows

After Thierry Lam’s suggestions, my error now reads:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: dlopen(/Users/steven/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib

Which seems very much like the same linking issue. Any wisdom to share? Thanks in advance.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    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
    • 0