Newbie Question - Cannot syncdb (cannot import settings) on django

Hi, I am having problems with syncdb and settings - checked the forum and docs but still haven't been able to figure it out.

I was able to set up a django app using the tutorial while using startproject / startapp on the server. I am also able to syncdb with a mysql database set up. So setting up the app and syncdb on the server is not a problem.

However, I am having problems when I am trying to syncdb on an application which I uploaded from github (and works on my development machine).

After setting up a Django 1.3 / Python 2.6 app ('django3rd'), I uploaded the application ('bookmark') into the django3rd dir: [apechai@web212 django3rd]$ git clone git@github.com:Apechai/bookmarks.git

then edited the wsgi to have 'bookmarks.settings' and renamed myproject.wsgi to bookmarks.wsgi: [apechai@web212 django3rd]$ vi myproject.wsgi

import os import sys

from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'bookmarks.settings' application = WSGIHandler()

then edited http conf to point to bookmarks.wsgi: [apechai@web212 conf]$ vi httpd.conf

changed the myproject.wsgi to: WSGIScriptAlias / /home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/bookmarks.wsgi

then edited settings.py in /django3rd/bookmarks/ to switch from sqlite3 to mysql.

When I run syncdb, I get an Import error. (I already set the default Python to 2.6 in .bash_profile):

[apechai@web212 bookmarks]$ python manage.py syncdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 14, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/core/management/init.py", line 438, in execute_manager utility.execute() File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/core/management/init.py", line 379, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/core/management/init.py", line 261, in fetch_command klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand) File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/core/management/init.py", line 67, in load_command_class module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name)) File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module import(name) File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 7, in <module> from django.core.management.sql import custom_sql_for_model, emit_post_sync_signal File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/core/management/sql.py", line 6, in <module> from django.db import models File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/db/init.py", line 14, in <module> if not settings.DATABASES: File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/utils/functional.py", line 276, in getattr self._setup() File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/conf/init.py", line 42, in _setup self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module) File "/home/apechai/webapps/django3rd/lib/python2.6/django/conf/init.py", line 89, in init raise ImportError("Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)) ImportError: Could not import settings 'bookmarks.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named settings

Any ideas how to fix this?