diff --git a/misc/apache/compass.wsgi b/misc/apache/compass.wsgi
index fdb8d9bb..a707dd87 100755
--- a/misc/apache/compass.wsgi
+++ b/misc/apache/compass.wsgi
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 import site
 import sys
 import os
+
+activate_this='$PythonHome/bin/activate_this.py'
+execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
 site.addsitedir('$PythonHome/lib/python2.6/site-packages')
 sys.path.append('$PythonHome')
 os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/tmp/.egg'