I'm trying to deploy my django project on a shared hosting as describe here I have my project on /home/user/www/testa I'm using this script #!/usr/bin/python import sys, os sys.path.append("/home/user/bin/python") sys.path.append('/home/user/www/testa') os.chdir("/home/user/www/testa") os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "settings.py" from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false") And here's the error I get when trying to run it from shell: WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param REQUEST_METHOD required by WSGI! WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_NAME required by WSGI! WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PORT required by WSGI! WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PROTOCOL required by WSGI! Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/flup/server/fcgi_base.py", line 558, in run File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/flup/server/fcgi_base.py", line 1118, in handler File "/home/user/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 230, in __call__ self.load_middleware() File "/home/user/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 33, in load_middleware for middleware_path in settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES: File "/home/user/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 269, in __getattr__ self._setup() File "/home/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 40, in _setup self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module) File "/home/user/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 75, in __init__ raise ImportError, "Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e) ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings.py' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named settings.py Content-Type: text/html Unhandled Exception Unhandled Exception An unhandled exception was thrown by the application. What am I doing wrong? Running the script from the browser just gives me an internal server error.