My server is running Apache+Django with MySQLdb

I'm getting an error with my eggs! Please help!

I tried creating a /var/www/.python-eggs directory that my user was allowed to access, but it didn't remove the error.

I then tried to make a symbolic link as follows (while in /var/www/):

sudo ln -s /var/tmp/.python-eggs .python-eggs

but that also didn't remove the error...

So I'm really out of ideas. I heard something about fixing my httpd.conf by adding a PythonImport, but I had trouble understanding how to do that.

So please Linux masters, what is the easiest way to remove this problem?



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Can't extract file(s) to egg cache

The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the Python egg
cache:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg-tmp'

The Python egg cache directory is currently set to:

/var/www/.python-eggs

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? You can
change the cache directory by setting the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment
variable to point to an accessible directory

Yeah, this is really troubling. I tried making the symbolic link again, and I can definitely perform:

touch /var/www/.python-eggs

This is making no sense

OMG figured it out! Using a symbolic link worked once I did

sudo chmod 777 .python-eggs

Maybe not the safest thing in the world though

You need to set up an area for the EGG_CACHE that can be written to by MySQL. My project's home directory was not such a place, unless I wanted to put MySQL into my project's group, or set permissions too lax. I opted to let the EGG_CACHE be /tmp. I also could have created a root directory writable by MySQL.