Django gives Bad Request (400) when DEBUG = False

The ALLOWED_HOSTS list should contain fully qualified host names, not urls. Leave out the port and the protocol. If you are using 127.0.0.1, I would add localhost to the list too:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost']

You could also use * to match any host:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

Quoting the documentation:

Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES).

Bold emphasis mine.

The status 400 response you get is due to a SuspiciousOperation exception being raised when your host header doesn't match any values in that list.

For me, I got this error by not setting USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST to true. From the docs:

This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use.

My hosting service wrote explicitly in their documentation that this setting must be used, and I get this 400 error if I forget it.

I had the same problem and none of the answers resolved my problem, for resolving the situation like this it's better to enable logging by adding the following config to settings.py temporary

LOGGING = { 'version': 1, 'disable_existing_loggers': False, 'handlers': { 'file': { 'level': 'DEBUG', 'class': 'logging.FileHandler', 'filename': '/tmp/debug.log', }, }, 'loggers': { 'django': { 'handlers': ['file'], 'level': 'DEBUG', 'propagate': True, }, }, }

and try to tail -f /tmp/debug.log.and when you see your issue you can handle it much easier than blind debugging.

My issue was about to

Invalid HTTP_HOST header: 'pt_web:8000'. The domain name provided is not valid according to RFC 1034/1035.

and resolve it by adding proxy_set_header Host $host; to Nginx config file and enabling port forwarding by USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT = True in the settings.py ( it's because in my case I've listened to request in Nginx on port 8080 and pass it to guni on port 8000