Question

These are the steps I’ve done:

1. Create a virtual env
2. Create a new Django project
3. Enable the admin

When I had this ready, I successfully saw the admin login screen. No problems here.

But when I did:

1. Start application
2. Add this application in the installed applications tuple (settings.py)
3. Run syncdb or not (I’ve tried both)

I get internal server error every time I try to access the admin.
Do you have any idea why it’s happening?

PS: I’m sorry if there is some configuration information missing, but I’m not a server expert.
Just ask and put them here.

Answer 1

For some strange reason the Apache log didn’t show me any error.
The workaround was adding two lines to a shell script that executes the CGI that actually runs Django in production version:

echo Content-type: text/plain
echo

Now I can see the error. (it was a missing cgitb module)