The project is using an Oracle database, with the Cx_oralce module starting to see the following exception thrown
[thu jul 10 16:40:54.915311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [ client ::1:61859] mod_wsgi (pid=28224): exception occurred processing wsgi script ' d:/spiders/dj_spiders/dj_spiders/wsgi.py '. [thu jul 10 16:40:54.915311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [ client ::1:61859] traceback (most recent call last):[Thu Jul 10 16:40:54.916311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] File "c:\\python27\\lib\\site-packages\\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\core\\handlers\\ wsgi.py ", line 187, in __call__[thu jul 10 16:40:54.919311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] Self.load_middleware () [thu jul 10 16:40:54.919311 2014]  [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] file "C:\\ Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\core\\handlers\\base.py ", line 49, in load_middleware[thu jul 10 16:40:54.920311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] mw_instance = mw _class () [thu jul 10 16:40:54.920311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] File "c:\\python27\\lib\\site-packages\\ django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\middleware\\transaction.py ", line 18, in __init__[thu jul 10 16:40:54.920311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [ client ::1:61859] if connection.settings_dict[' ATOMIC_REQUESTS ']:[Thu jul 10 16:40:54.920311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] file "C : \\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\db\\__init__.py ", line 34, in __getattr__[thu jul 10 16:40:54.925311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] return getattr (connections[DEFAULT_ Db_alias], item) [thu jul 10 16:40:54.925311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224: tid 752] [client ::1:61859] file "c:\\python27\\lib\\site-packages\\ django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\db\\utils.py ", line 198, in __getitem__[thu jul 10 16:40:54.925311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client : : 1:61859] backend = load_backend (db[' ENGINE ') [thu jul 10 16:40:54.925311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] file "C : \\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\db\\utils.py ", line 113, in load_backend[thu jul 10 16:40:54.925311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] return import_module ('%s.base ' % backend_name) [thu jul 10 16:40:54.925311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224: tid 752] [client ::1:61859] file "c:\\python27\\lib\\site-packages\\ django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\utils\\importlib.py ", line 40, in import_module[thu Jul 10 16:40:54.929311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client &NBSP;::1:61859]&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;&NBSP;__IMPORT__ (name) [thu jul 10 16:40:54.929311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] file "C:\\Python27\\lib\\ site-packages\\django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg\\django\\db\\backends\\oracle\\base.py ", line 45, in <module>[thu jul 10 16:40:54.929311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224: Tid 752] [client ::1:61859] raise improperlyconfigured ("Error loading cx_oracle module: %s " % e) [thu jul 10 16:40:54.929311 2014] [:error] [pid 28224:tid 752] [client ::1:61859] unicodedecodeerror: ' ASCII ' codec can ' t decode byte 0xd5 in position 17: ordinal not in range (128)
Juvenile, re-installed under the cx_oracle can be solved