How to simulate HTTP error 500 in django?

Question

I have set a HTML page 500.html in my main direcroty. It will show this page when HTML 500 Internal Server Error occurs.

How can I generate this error to check if it works?

I'm gussesing I should somehow raise exception of some sort.

How do I do that?

possible duplicate of [How to test 500.html in (django) development env?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2740003/how-to-test-500-html-in-django-development-env) — pritaeas, Sep 10 '15 at 10:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '15 at 10:45

2

Try editing the urls.py as follows:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^500/$', 'django.views.defaults.server_error'),
    )

Then try accessing the page as follows:

answered Sep 10 '15 at 10:45

Murali

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