Django ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings' - No module named csrf

Question

I am just starting to fiddle around with django. First I made a small app on my windows machine and verified it worked fine Then, I zipped the entire project, and opened the zip on a linux machine. The linux machine was installed with mod_wsgi and django 1.1.1, of course.

I created the following dirs:

• /usr/local/bin/ROOT - contains only one file, django.wsgi
• /usr/local/bin/ROOT/myapp - root dir of django app

Per the instructions here, I added to httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName server
    ServerAlias server
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com


    WSGIScriptAlias /myapp /usr/local/bin/ROOT/django.wsgi

    <Directory /usr/local/bin/ROOT/>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Now per the instructions here I put in /usr/local/bin/ROOT/django.wsgi:

import os
import sys
path = '/usr/local/bin/ROOT'
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myapp.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

If it is of any importance: there is nothing set on PYTHOHPATH before the application starts.

After that I did a graceful restart to apache, and went to server/myapp. I got a 500 error. Lookin in the log I see:

[Sun Dec 05 12:24:17 2010] [error] [client XXXX] ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing middleware django.middleware.csrf: "No module named csrf"

What am I doing wrong? all other threads I found about this always either end up with a conclusion that it's an old version of django (but mine's 1.1.1) or that there are several apps running, but I have only one...

Help?

Answer 1

"django.middleware.csrf" is the package in Django 1.2.x

For Django 1.1.x CSRF settings read the appropriate docs Here

The package in 1.1.x was "django.contrib.csrf.middleware.CsrfMiddleware"

Answer 2

1.1.1 is an old version of Django (the current version is 1.2.3), and that's almost certainly the cause of your problem. There is no django.middleware.csrf in 1.1.1.