Directing wsgi to the correct python - wsgi

Question

I'm trying to run a django app with wsgi on apache on acentos6.5.
Centos6.5 comes with python2.6 while I need python2.7 so I've installed it and want to use my virtualenv.
Since apache was complaining that it does not find django, I decided to set the python home but then it complains that it cannot even the os package.
Here is my httpd.conf:
WSGIPythonHome /root/venv/bin
WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myproj.com
Serveralias www. myproj.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/ myproj
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/ myproj_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/ myproj_access.log combined
WSGIDaemonProcess myproj python-path=/var/www/ myproj:/root/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/root/venv/lib/python2.7:/root/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
WSGIProcessGroup myproj
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/ myproj/ myproj/wsgi.py
<Directory /var/www/ myproj/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /root/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
here is the path of my virtualenv:
/root/venv/bin/python2.7
Can someone guide me how to make wsgi find and use my python2.7?
Note: I easily made it work on ubuntu so there must be a trick to centos.
Note: I'm sure that it's using python2.6 because I put a log statement in wsgi.py.