How to test 500.html error page in django development env?

Question

I am using Django for a project and is already in production.

In the production environment 500.html is rendered whenever a server error occurs.

How do I tes

Answer 1

You can simply define the handler404 and handler500 for errors in your main views.py file as detailed in this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18009660/1913888

This will return the error that you desire when Django routes to that handler. No custom URL configuration is needed to route to a different URL name.