NGinx + Gunicorn + Django setup

I followed this tutorial and I’ve checked everything a few times over, but I get a “Server Error (500)” when I try to access the server via the ip. If I look at the error log, nothing is there. The access log, however does show my attempts.

In sites-available and sites-enabled I have the config file

server {
       listen 80;
       server_name <IP ADDRESS>;
       location = /favicon.ico {access_log off;log_not_found off;}

       location /static/ {
         root /home/deploy/sax-website/sax;
       }
       location /media/ {
         root /home/deploy/sax-website/sax;
       }

       location / {
         include proxy_params;
         proxy_pass http://unix:/home/deploy/sax-website/sax/sax.sock;
       }
     }

home/deploy/sax-website/sax is the directory with the manage.py file and it also contains the sax.sock file created during gunicorn setup.

home/deploy/sax-website/sax contains a subfolder for fonts, images, scripts and a single css file.

home/deploy/sax-website/sax/media the media added to db via the admin panel.

I tried removing the link to sites-available/default from sites-enabled but that didn’t help.

Can anybody suggest some steps for debugging? Is there a way to gunicorn + django without nginx so I can isolate the issue? Any ideas why there’s nothing in /var/log/nginx/error.log?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m also open to other approaches to deployment if there is a better or easier way.