[Solved]-Pip and virtualenv installing parts of django in the wrong place

Just met the same issue in our box too. fixed it by deleting this directory

rm -rf ~/.cache/pip

path may differ by OS, check this link to find your pip cache directory https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/reference/pip_install.html#caching

The reason is we have a corrupted cache of django in the box somehow, I found this by adding -v parameter when you install django to see the verbose output:

pip install -v django==1.5

in our case, it’s just installed without downloading anything. then i added –no-cache-dir to install a clean one:

pip install -v django==1.5 --no-cache-dir

it works this time, there is no conf and contrib folder in the root of virtualenv, instead the files stay in site-packages which is we expected. and after we remove ~/.cache/pip, it also works fine with pip install django==1.5

Add this line to the top of requirements.txt:

--no-binary Django

(from https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2823)