Question

I have a Django app running on a shared server using FCGI. When I run the dispatch.fcgi script from the command line, I see the HTML content of my homepage, as expected. However, when I try to visit my homepage using my browser, I get a 500 error. My question is basically the same as this one: Django FastCGI and 500 Internal Server Error except that I am already on Python version 2.6.

Answer 1

You need to log the exception – put your entire dispatch.fcgi file in a try/except block and write the traceback to a file you can inspect:

from traceback import format_exc
try:
    # current dispatch.fcgi code
except Exception:
    open("/path/you/can/write/to.txt", "w").write(format_exc())
    raise

Hopefully that’s enough to figure out the underlying issue.