Server 500 Error in Django – Gunicorn starts but app doesn't respond
kx24
FREEOP

2 months ago

HI!! I'm deploying a Django app on Railway. The container starts successfully, Gunicorn launches without errors and listens on port 8080, but when I access the public domain, I get a 500 error on all routes.

Key details:

  • The app doesn't use a database—only forms (forms.py) and SMTP configuration.

  • Migrations were applied successfully (auth, admin, sessions, etc.).

  • Static files are located in landingpage/static/landing, and I ran collectstatic --noinput.

  • STATICFILES_DIRS, STATIC_ROOT, and ALLOWED_HOSTS are configured according to Railway's official guide.

  • My Procfile contains:
    web: gunicorn servelecpage.wsgi:application --bind 0.0.0.0:8080

  • WSGI_APPLICATION in settings.py is set to 'servelecpage.wsgi.application', and the wsgi.py file correctly defines the application variable.

  • The environment variable ALLOWED_HOSTS is set to proyectosweb-production.up.railway.app, but I also tested with ["*"].

  • Logs show no errors—just a clean Gunicorn startup.

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3 Replies

Railway
BOT

2 months ago

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irazvan2745
PRO

2 months ago

SMTP is only available on the PRO plan and above, maybe thats why its erroring

Also, did you configure the proxy correctly?

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kx24
FREEOP

2 months ago

That was exactly the issue. I’m not planning to upgrade to the Pro plan at this time, so I’ll explore other deployment platforms. Thanks again for the support — I had assumed Railway included SMTP access by default.

My goal is to build scalable projects, ranging from simple landing pages to more complex, production-ready applications. If you have any platform recommendations that support SMTP out of the box, I’d really appreciate them.

All the best

Status changed to Solved brody • 2 months ago

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