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

Update for Django > 1.6 and without getting

page_not_found() missing 1 required positional argument: 'exception'

Inspired by this answer:

# urls.py
from django.views.defaults import page_not_found, server_error, permission_denied, bad_request
[...]
if settings.DEBUG:
    # This allows the error pages to be debugged during development, just visit
    # these url in browser to see how these error pages look like.
    urlpatterns += [
    path('400/', bad_request, kwargs={'exception': Exception('Bad Request!')}),
    path('403/', permission_denied, kwargs={'exception': Exception('Permission Denied')}),
    path('404/', page_not_found, kwargs={'exception': Exception('Page not Found')}),
    path('500/', server_error),