500 error on service authentication - TangentMicroServices/MicroSerivcesWiki GitHub Wiki

500 : INTERNAL SERVER ERROR http://projectservice.staging.tangentmicroservices.com/api-explorer/api-docs/

1. ssh into the server and start up the service environment

2. open a python shell

    python manage.py shell
   

3. Run the authentication code

    from tokenauth.authbackends import *
    bke=TokenAuthBackend()
    bke.authenticate("<token>")
   

If you get the following error:

IntegrityError: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "auth_user_username_key"
DETAIL:  Key (username)=(bloggs) already exists.

Then login to the admin panel of that service, delete the user and try again