title: Django - A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator
body: <p>I've just started learning Django and followed their tutorial to the letter. I've tried to set up the website three times, every time I was greeted with the same error (in the title).</p>
  
  <p>Again, followed their official tutorial to the letter. I'm at Tutorial 2, where I'm supposed to access the admin page. When I have <code>DEBUG = False</code>, I get the error message in the title, and this is what the console outputs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>deusdies@galaksija:~/Documents/djangosites/testing$ python manage.py runserver
  Validating models...
  
  0 errors found
  Django version 1.4.3, using settings 'testing.settings'
  Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
  Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/wsgiref/handlers.py", line 85, in run
      self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__
      response = self.get_response(request)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 153, in get_response
      response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 228, in handle_uncaught_exception
      return callback(request, **param_dict)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 91, in _wrapped_view
      response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/views/defaults.py", line 32, in server_error
      t = loader.get_template(template_name) # You need to create a 500.html template.
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 145, in get_template
      template, origin = find_template(template_name)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 138, in find_template
      raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name)
  TemplateDoesNotExist: 500.html
  [09/Feb/2013 06:47:23] "GET /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 500 59
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is with <code>DEBUG = False</code>. With <code>DEBUG = True</code>, I get the standard "It works!" page, even when I access the /admin/ URL, or for that matter any other url on the page.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my <code>settings.py</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code># Django settings for testing project.
  
  DEBUG = False #I've been playing with this
  TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
  
  ADMINS = (
      ('deusdies', 'b@bo.vc'),
  )
  
  MANAGERS = ADMINS
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
          'NAME': 'baza',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
          'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
          'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
          'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
          'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
      }
  }
  
  # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
  # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
  # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
  # In a Windows environment this must be set to your system time zone.
  TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'
  
  # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
  # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  SITE_ID = 1
  
  # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
  # to load the internationalization machinery.
  USE_I18N = True
  
  # If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
  # calendars according to the current locale.
  USE_L10N = True
  
  # If you set this to False, Django will not use timezone-aware datetimes.
  USE_TZ = True
  
  # Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
  # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
  MEDIA_ROOT = ''
  
  # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
  # trailing slash.
  # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/"
  MEDIA_URL = ''
  
  # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
  # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
  # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
  # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
  STATIC_ROOT = ''
  
  # URL prefix for static files.
  # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  
  # Additional locations of static files
  STATICFILES_DIRS = (
      # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
      # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
      # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
  )
  
  # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
  # various locations.
  STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
  #    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
  )
  
  # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
  SECRET_KEY = 'fx$2x-fr0xynw$74j69)tj^(11_xcb7$y2018l+99i3^20wb=!'
  
  # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
  TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
      'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
      'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
  #     'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
  )
  
  MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
      # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
  )
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'testing.urls'
  
  # Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'testing.wsgi.application'
  
  TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
      # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
      # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
      # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
  )
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.sites',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
      'django.contrib.admin',
      # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
      'django.contrib.admindocs',
      'polls',
  )
  
  # A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
  # performed by this configuration is to send an email to
  # the site admins on every HTTP 500 error when DEBUG=False.
  # See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for
  # more details on how to customize your logging configuration.
  LOGGING = {
      'version': 1,
      'disable_existing_loggers': False,
      'filters': {
          'require_debug_false': {
              '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
          }
      },
      'handlers': {
          'mail_admins': {
              'level': 'ERROR',
              'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
              'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
          }
      },
      'loggers': {
          'django.request': {
              'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
              'level': 'ERROR',
              'propagate': True,
          },
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Some folks elsewhere on SO suggested I create a 500.html template and see what the error is - only I have no idea how to do this.</p>