Django - No module name site.urls

Question

As this other SO post shows, my Django 1.4 directory structure globally looks like:

wsgi/
   champis/
       settings.py
       settings_deployment.py
       urls.py
   site/
       static/
           css/
               app.css
       templates/some_app/foo.html
       __init__.py
       urls.py
       views.py
       models.py
   manage.py

The project is champis, the app is site. My PYTHONPATH includes the wsgi folder (well from Django standards it should be named after the project i.e. champis, but here I'm starting from an Openshift django-example Git project).

My champis.urls:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
# from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^champis/', include('site.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

My site.urls module then routes to specific pages, but when trying to access on local, I have the error:

http://127.0.0.1/champis => no module name site.urls

The site app is present in my INSTALLED_APPS, and my ROOT_URLCONF is champis.urls. Do you have an idea why ? Even moving the site folder into the champis one didn't help.

@Alasdair, Brandon: yes and yes. I'll edit my post to mention that. — Emmanuel, Oct 18 '13 at 10:37
what about just champis.site.urls? It's weird because it seems perfectly fine the way it is. — Chris Hawkes, Oct 18 '13 at 11:10
Have you tried deleting any/all of your .pyc files? Everything looks ok to me. — Brandon Taylor, Oct 18 '13 at 11:38
@chawk that's exactly what I meant with my comment. I suspect the application is clashing with another 'site', calling the application directly would probably solve this — yuvi, Oct 18 '13 at 11:58
@chawk: I'll try and let you know, did not think about this one. Brandon: I'll try that too. — Emmanuel, Oct 18 '13 at 12:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '13 at 11:16

I finally managed to solve this problem by:

adding an __init__.py at project level
renaming my site app into web (app name seemed to be colliding with... something that I did not find)

Here is my current directory structure now:

wsgi/
   champis/
       settings.py
       settings_deployment.py
       urls.py
   web/                <= changed app name
       static/
           css/
               app.css
       templates/some_app/foo.html
       __init__.py
       urls.py
       views.py
       models.py
   manage.py
   __init__.py         <= added

Django - No module name site.urls

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