Django Setting DEBUG = False causes 500 Error - Django 500 error debug false - ALLOWED_HOSTS Problem [SOLVED]

Django Debug False 500 error Solved
Being involved in Full Stack Django/Python Web Application Development for 3 years now, I recently deployed my Django application on a test server and encountered Server Error (500) on Django when template debug is set to False. That is in Django settings.py, when I changed DEBUG = FALSE from DEBUG = TRUE, it caused 500 error.

I had upgraded my application from Django 1.4 to Django 1.7. I came to know that 500 error on DEBUG = False error is encountered by everyone using django 1.5 or greater as soon as they change their settings.py to DEBUG = False. Well my problem got solved after reading several blogs and digging deeper in the Django Docs for DEBUG = False ALLOWED_HOSTS settings. 

What I did was, in settings.py, changed ALLOWED_HOSTS value in the following way:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['123.123.198.123']
# Above mentioned IP is not my actual IP. Enter your actual server IP or domain name here. 

If you have a domain name of your server, you may write:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['www.example.com']

You can also use a '*' wildcard to allow all hosts. But this is not recommended in the production environment.

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

You can find a full detail regarding the ALLOWED_HOSTS settings here hidden deep inside django document  

Django Syncdb Create superuser ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 [Solved]

While setting up a new remote server for a new Django Application I am currently working on, I encountered following error as entered yes to create superuser after I entered syncdb command for the first time.

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Here is the full trace:

(django1.5)[root@DXDS2102 testdjango]# python manage.py syncdb
Creating tables ...
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group_permissions
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user_groups
Creating table auth_user_user_permissions
Creating table auth_user
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site

You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined.
Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

As I had centOS server for my Django Application, I entered following commands which actually solved this problem:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

After running the above command I again did syncdb but Django didn't asked me about creating superuser. So for manually creating a superuser, I entered following command:

python manage.py createsuperuser

The django superuser was created without the error of "ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8".

django.core.exceptions.improperlyconfigured error loading mysqldb module no module named mysqldb - Python Django MySQL Error

In order to deal massive (Big) data in one of my applications. I am testing MySQL with MariaDB and TokuDB. Previously I had used PostgreSQL for my applications but the Reporting Engine I am designing requires some unique features to update data faster and retrieve it in an efficient manner. TokuDB being based on Fractal Indexing makes the insertion faster for Bigger Data and keeps the database compressed resulting in efficient use of storage data. While running MySQL MariaDB with Django in my virtual environment, I encountered following error: 

 
django.core.exceptions.improperlyconfigured error loading mysqldb module no module named mysqldb

Full Trace is:

 
(django1.5)alis-air:DjangoMariaDb aliraza$ python manage.py syncdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 453, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 272, in fetch_command
    klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 77, in load_command_class
    module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 8, in <module>
    from django.core.management.sql import custom_sql_for_model, emit_post_sync_signal
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 9, in <module>
    from django.db import models
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    backend = load_backend(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'])
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 34, in __getattr__
    return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 93, in __getitem__
    backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 27, in load_backend
    return import_module('.base', backend_name)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/Users/aliraza/Projects/VirtualEnv/django1.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 17, in <module>
    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named MySQLdb

The solution to this error which worked for me was simply installing mysql-python module in my virtual environment. Use following command:

 
pip install mysql-python

and if you are not using virtualenv, then use:

 
sudo pip install mysql-python