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IIS can not access newly added files in a django project

In a django project that is served by IIS (windows), i added a local file, test.py. The project ran perfectly before and still runs perfect on localhost, however IIS appears to not recognize the new test.py file. It appears IIS access to this file fails, even if the users IUSR and IIS_USRS have full access (same as for all other files in the folder).
I get below error message, and somethimes also the same but "No module named 'app.test'. Removing the "import app.test as test" in views.py solves the issue.
Suprisingly the "import app.oldFile as oldFile" works without issue.
In my views.py, i import the python scripts like this
import app.oldFile as oldFile
import app.test as test
My django project has the structure:
djangoRest
-app
--__init__.py
--views.py
--oldFile.py
--test.py
-djangoRest
--__init__.py
--settings.py
--urls.py
--wsgi.py

I found the reason, and solution.
In the earlier import file oldFile.py i use the line
import os
os.chdir(r\\some\\other\\directory\\)
This obviously changes the current working directory and as a result the other file test.py can't be found, and cannot be imported.
This mistake does not matter when testing django on the localhost, but only manifests in an issue when served by IIS.

Can a Python script use a Django database while not being in the same folder?

I have a python application (which we'll call app) I'd like to have a web front for. The application has many files and it's important the folder tree structure stays the way it is.
I've built a Django project and put it in a folder named "Web" in the app's folder, so now the folder tree looks like so:
[Data]
[Resources]
[Web]
[WebFront]
normal django app files
[Web]
__init__.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
__init__.py
manage.py
main.py
Here's the code on the app's main.py:
import os
import django
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "Web.Web.settings")
django.setup()
This code causes an exception on the django.setup() line as (I think) django does not find the project modules: ImportError: No module named WebFront (WebFront is the name of the django app)
I suspect this is caused because django runs in the directory of python app, and therefore cannot find the folder WebFront - Which should actually be Web/WebFront
Can this be done? Or should I reverse the order and put the python app in the django app?
This is not a duplicate of the following questions as the folder nesting causes a different problem (I think)
Django 1.7 throws django.core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady: Models aren't loaded yet
Easiest way to write a Python program with access to Django database functionality
Using only the DB part of Django

You can locate your main.py script where you like. However, if it is outside of the Web folder, then you will have to add Web to the Python path, otherwise imports like import Webfront are going to fail.
import sys
sys.path.append('/path/to/Web/')
Once you have done that, you can change the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "Web.settings")

How do I get all files for my django app into one folder?

I currently have a Django app named reserve. In the folder named "reserve" I have most of the content of my app (views.py, urls.py, models.py, templates folder). However, I have a folder outside of "reserve" named "booking" that has only my settings.py. I tried consolidating by putting the settings.py in "booking" into "reserve" but I seem to be getting an error. Any advice on how to have only one folder with all contents?
The error I get is: ImportError: Could not import settings 'booking.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named booking.settings
overall project folder
booking folder
settings.py
init.py
reserve folder (the app)
views.py
admin.py
models.py
...

what version of django are you using? what command are you running ? assuming that you are just trying to run a command using manage.py you could just chnage manage.py to reflect this if you are going to permanently keep this project structure
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
if __name__ == "__main__":
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "your_project.settings")
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
you should change os.environ.setdefault to the correct directory for your settings.py

I'm assuming you have manage.py at the overal project directory? I'm also assuming you want to just runserver.
It seems you moved the settings.py file outside the overal project directory. If you do this, you'll have to specify the settings file path when you do runserver, or you can also export the django settings module to point to your new settings path (using dot notation). In this case, I think it would be (in the command line):
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=<overal-project-folder-name>.booking.settings
python manage.py runserver

Django settings.py Error: Import by filename is not supported

I am running Django in a virtual environment (using virtualenv), and I'm trying to add a custom development environment settings file to simplify app configuration when I'm developing. My plan was to do this with two lines of code
if os.environ.get('DEVELOPMENT', None):
from login import settings_dev
I've also tried import settings_def and from login.settings_dev import *. My settings_dev.py file is sitting in the same directory as my settings.py file and my app is sitting in a folder called login. When I run python login/manage.py syncdb I get this error:
Error: Import by filename is not supported.
My searching keeps bringing up DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE (though I'm not sure how it plays into all this - first Django app :]), so just an FYI it is set in my settings.py file like so:
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'login.settings'
I've also tried exporting it in my terminal, but I get the same error.
Does anyone know how I can fix this/what I'm doing wrong here?

Make sure while passing relative address of file to use "." instead of "/".
I faced the same error what I actually did
"music/urls"
But it should be
"music.urls"

In the original settings.py, at the very end:
try:
from settings_dev import *
except ImportError:
pass
Create settings_dev.py in the same directory as settings.py, and in it, add these two lines at the very top:
import sys
globals().update(vars(sys.modules['settings']))
Now add whatever development settings you want in this file.

I had similar error in runserver command execution and finally I've found that this error raises because of python version incompatibility by the django version installed. There is two versions of python on my system and I had running django server by the wrong one. Hope it could be helpful to someone.

Error: Could not import settings 'app' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named settings on Local

I'm getting this error
Error: Could not import settings 'app_name.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named settings
I'm running a development local server and it stopped worked after I made some 400 inserts. Any pointers as to what caused this? The files are there and permissions are correct.
Update:
I've tried reverting back to a commit a few days old when it worked, but it still doesn't.

Have you tried this ?:
./manage.py runserver --settings=your_settings_file_name

I copied the project folder to another directory, deleted .DStore as well, and copied the folder back, and it works now