ImproperlyConfigured DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE error when migrating from 1.5.1 to 1.6

[Brian DeWeese]

I'm using Apache 2.4 and Python 2.6.8.  We have several different virtual hosts and the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is defined within each virtual host.  However, the wsgi file gets loaded before the settings.py file.  This works fine under Django 1.5.1 as settings aren't referenced from within the wsgi.  But with 1.6 it does get referenced and therefore raises an ImproperlyConfigured error.  Does anyone have any suggestions to help fix this issue?  Is there anyway I can get the settings module to load before the wsgi module?

Brian DeWeese

-- apache.conf --

WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/ecn/www/web-sites/wsgi/foo.wsgi

<Directory "/opt/ecn/www/web-sites/wsgi">

    Allow from all

</Directory>

WSGIDaemonProcess mysite1 display-name=%{GROUP} processes=10

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName mysite1.foo

    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite1.settings

    WSGIProcessGroup mysite1

</VirtualHost>

-- output --

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.120637 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192] mod_wsgi (pid=20169): Target WSGI script '/opt/ecn/www/web-sites/wsgi/foo.wsgi' cannot be loaded as Python module.

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.120703 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192] mod_wsgi (pid=20169): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/opt/ecn/www/web-sites/wsgi/foo.wsgi'.

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.120735 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192] Traceback (most recent call last):

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.120767 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/web-sites/wsgi/foo.wsgi", line 8, in <module>

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.120879 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     from django.core.handlers import wsgi as django_wsgi

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.120901 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/Django/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 11, in <module>

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121020 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     from django.core.handlers import base

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121048 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/Django/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 12, in <module>

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121186 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     from django.db import connections, transaction

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121215 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/Django/django/db/__init__.py", line 83, in <module>

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121314 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     signals.request_started.connect(reset_queries)

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121343 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/Django/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 88, in connect

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121489 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     if settings.DEBUG:

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121520 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/Django/django/conf/__init__.py", line 54, in __getattr__

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121628 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     self._setup(name)

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121656 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]   File "/opt/ecn/www/Django/django/conf/__init__.py", line 47, in _setup

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121690 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192]     % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))

[Fri Nov 08 13:24:02.121729 2013] [:error] [pid 20169] [remote 127.0.0.1:40192] ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DEBUG, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.