Unicodedecodeerror with runserver

Question

After setting up all what django requires, I tried the runserver command and I caught an error:

UnicodeDecodeError

Answer 1

I hit this issue on python 3.4 with the following situation :

• Server did have an ascii-only hostname (like host1)
• The /etc/hosts file did not contain an entry for my hostname
• There was no available DNS resolver (offline computer)

After adding the following entry to the /etc/hosts file, no further UnicodeDecodeError exceptions were thrown.

127.0.0.1 localhost host1