/health returns 500

[jasonthomas]

The app is up, running, and responding to requests but the /health endpoint is failing. Traceback is below but I don't see any useful message.

curl https://recommend-dev.allizom.org/health -D-
HTTP/1.1 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Server: nginx
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:49:00 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close

<h1>Server Error (500)</h1>

Stacktrace (most recent call last):

  File "django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "health_check/views.py", line 19, in home
    return HttpResponseServerError(loader.render_to_string("health_check/dashboard.html", {'plugins': plugins}))
  File "django/template/loader.py", line 172, in render_to_string
    return t.render(Context(dictionary))
  File "django/template/base.py", line 148, in render
    return self._render(context)
  File "django/template/base.py", line 142, in _render
    return self.nodelist.render(context)
  File "django/template/base.py", line 844, in render
    bit = self.render_node(node, context)
  File "django/template/base.py", line 858, in render_node
    return node.render(context)
  File "django/template/defaulttags.py", line 208, in render
    nodelist.append(node.render(context))
  File "django/template/base.py", line 898, in render
    output = self.filter_expression.resolve(context)
  File "django/template/base.py", line 596, in resolve
    obj = self.var.resolve(context)
  File "django/template/base.py", line 734, in resolve
    value = self._resolve_lookup(context)
  File "django/template/base.py", line 788, in _resolve_lookup
    current = current()
  File "health_check/backends/base.py", line 46, in pretty_status
    return u"%s" % (HEALTH_CHECK_STATUS_TYPE_TRANSLATOR[self.status])

[joaonrb]

My gess is the health API was trying to wright to disk and failed. Because we dont need nothing of this I writed the db check so we dont use the defaults. Just make the folloing changes in settings

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    "corsheaders",
    "health_check",
    "health_check_db",
    "health_check_cache",
    "health_check_storage",
    "recommendation",
    "recommendation.api",
    "recommendation.filter_owned",
    "recommendation.language",
    "recommendation.simple_logging",
    "recommendation.diversity",
    "raven.contrib.django",
)

to

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    "corsheaders",
    "health_check",
    "recommendation",
    "recommendation.api",
    "recommendation.filter_owned",
    "recommendation.language",
    "recommendation.simple_logging",
    "recommendation.diversity",
    "raven.contrib.django",
)