So I put up my first site on web faction a couple weeks ago, went smoothly, after figuring all the necessary changes that needed to be made from using the built-in django server vs the apache production server. I realized that since I have multiple sites I am working on, it would be useful to just setup django + apache on my local machine. Well I am running to some issues. Here is what I did so far:

- installed mysql 5.0.51b (binary OSX 10.5 x86_64) WORKS!
- installed mod_python 3.3.1 (change a few lines as mentioned here "http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/11/tips-and-tricks.html" to get the x86_64 arch) WORKS! (able to import it via python interpreter)
- installed MySQLdb 1.2.2 (commented out a few lines for it to compile as noted here "http://www.davidcramer.net/code/57/mysqldb-on-leopard.html" DOES NOT WORK
- installed django trunk WORKS!

- setup my apache configuration and everything looks like it is good. but when i navigation to my virtual host i get:

ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: dlopen(/Users/Me/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Users/Me/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg-tmp/_mysql.so: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

AND in the python interpreter i can't import MySQLdb, its throws this error:

>>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
   
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)

This may or may not be enough to diagnose the problem, but anyone have any ideas? It seems that i followed all the correct directions to make sure everything is x86_64, but its not working. How does webfaction have this all setup?

Thanks.

thedevel