Foreman start results in server error 500

Question

I am following Getting Started with Django on Heroku tutorial to deploy my app. First to test locally, I ran foreman start:

| => foreman start
00:47:08 web.1  | started with pid 4465
00:47:09 web.1  | 2013-11-21 00:47:09 [4465] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 18.0
00:47:09 web.1  | 2013-11-21 00:47:09 [4465] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:5000 (4465)
00:47:09 web.1  | 2013-11-21 00:47:09 [4465] [INFO] Using worker: sync
00:47:09 web.1  | 2013-11-21 00:47:09 [4468] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 4468

Then in Chrome I went to http://0.0.0.0:5000/rides/ (also http://localhost:5000/rides/ ), it is returning Server Error 500. My project urls.py:

url(r'^rides/', include('rides.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

Below is my Procfile:

web: gunicorn rides_project.wsgi

requirements.txt:

Django==1.6
South==0.8.3
dj-database-url==0.2.2
dj-static==0.0.5
django-localflavor==1.0
django-toolbelt==0.0.1
gunicorn==18.0
psycopg2==2.5.1
static==0.4
wsgiref==0.1.2

How can I troubleshoot this? Thank you for your help in advance.

Answer 1

Can you navigate to /admin successfully? If so, I would ensure that your DEBUG setting is set to True so that you can get a traceback through the browser to help determine the root cause of the 500 error.