[Django]-Manage.py runserver – ImportError: No module named MYSITE

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If you’re using windows, you’ll need to put your project’s directory (the one with manage.py in it) into an environment variable called PYTHONPATH.

👤orokusaki

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Since this is highly ranked on Google and I got here while searching for an answer I’ll share my solution:

I have a project built on my machine, packaged into a debian package and installed on a test machine. On my machine I use the runserver but on the testmachine I use apache (which was using fine). When changing database from sqlite to postgresql I could not do shell or syncdb etc (all manage commands). The problem here was that manage.py was owned by www-data and it had to be root for these commands to work…

sudo chown root. manage.py
👤olofom

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Another different answer 😉 I’m walking the “Django for the Impatient: Building a Blog” chapter from “Python Web Development with Django” and it suggests creating a “dotted” module so I registered my application as “x.y” which it didn’t like. Changing to “y” which matched the file-system as:

/x
 + manage.py
 + /x
   + settings.py
 + /y
   + models.py

Worked for me.

👤Raymond Kroeker

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