If you are struggling with below error while deploying Django on VPS, this post may help and save you hours for MariaDB Troubleshoot.

• Did you install mysqlclient or MySQL-python?
• OSError: mysql_config not found
• ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘ConfigParser’

This is my 2nd times try out Django with MariaDB. The 1st one went smoothly. Couple of searches and I find that I only need to add a simple line into “activate” file of Python VirtualEnv

2nd time didn’t go right, when running “python manage.py migrate“, I got “Did you install mysqlclient or MySQL-python?“. Continue trying to run “pip install mysqlclient“, I got “OSError: mysql_config not found“, and sometimes “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘ConfigParser‘”

MariaDB Troubleshoot

I tried and installed many things and not quite sure which one resolved the issue. I do believe below helped me out

“yum install mariadb-devel”

After running above command, I was able to “pip install mysqlclient” and “python manage.py migrate”