Django DisallowedHost error

Question

I'm running django with apache and I'm getting the following error in my apache error.log:

django.core.exceptions.DisallowedHost: Invalid HTTP_HOST header: 'example.com'. You may need to add 'example.com' to ALLOWED_HOSTS., referer: http://example.com/

In my settings.py I have:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

This should allow any host shouldn't it?

Edit: After some more investigating I've found out that no matter what I set ALLOWED_HOSTS to, it always results in the above error. I can reach the website just fine when I'm using the local IP address of the server. The only thing that's not working is the remote URL.

Answer 1

I finally found the solution to the problem.

The wsgi.py that's connecting django with apache was overriding the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting in my settings.py.

wsgi has it's own ALLOWED_HOSTS that can be set independently from the django settings. Checking all the possible configuration files was crucial for finding this error.

Answer 2

just add the url to ALLOWED_HOSTS:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['ip.ip.ip.ip', '.example.com', '127.0.0.1']