Server Error 500 Django Digital Ocean

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Beginning with Django 1.5 a new “allowed hosts” setting was introduced. When DEBUG is set to False, it is enforced. In your settings.py file, find the that looks like:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

and change it to include the Droplet’s IP address and/or the domain name pointing to your site. For example:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["example.com", "111.111.111.111"]

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• How To Set Up Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 16.04

I have a similar problem. when loggedin i and try to access a page, i get the server error(500) on the browser. but when looged out i get no such massage and can access the page. however images uploaded through the admin site would’t display and won’t even open if i try viewing them the the said admin site. please someone help.

Try to activate your virtual environment, run “python manage.py makemigrations” and python manage.py migrate"

even if makemigrations return “no changes made” still run “migrate”.

Then restart your gunicorn and nginx: run “sudo systemctl restart gunicorn” and “sudo systemctl restart nginx”

Hope this helps