Making call to django web server causes Error 500

Question

I am having an iPad application that does calls to a django server to get data. On the production server calls work just fine, but when I move app to make calls to development server I get an 500 server error (since iPad app works while making calls to production server, I suspect that the problem is on the development server).

Since I'm very new in this technology(Django) I don't know what code/logs should I provide or what should I do. Any clue on how can I debug that would be welcomed(also, I can provide anything that might help).

Answer 1

Have you added a logger?

If not, the doc is here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/logging/#examples

And here is an example that you can copy paste in the settings of your project. The logs will go in logs/django.log:

LOGGING_CONFIG = None
LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format' : "[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s [%(name)s:%(lineno)s] %(message)s",
            'datefmt' : "%d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S"
        },
        'simple': {
            'format': '[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s %(message)s',
            'datefmt' : "%d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S"
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'djangofile': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler',
            'filename': 'logs/django.log',
            'when':'midnight',
            'backupCount':7,
            'formatter': 'verbose'
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers':['djangofile'],
            'propagate': True,
            'level':'DEBUG',
        },
    }
}
import logging.config
logging.config.dictConfig(LOGGING)