I am trying to run my django server on an Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2. I am using gunicorn to run the server like this : gunicorn --workers 4 --bind 127.0.0.1:8000 woc.wsgi:application --name woc-server --log-level=info --worker-class=tornado --timeout=90 --graceful-timeout=10 When I make a request I am getting 502, Bad Gateway on the browser. Here is the server log http://pastebin.com/Ej5KWrWs Some sections of the settings.py file where behaviour is changed based on hostname are iUbuntu is the hostname of my laptop if socket.gethostname() == 'iUbuntu': ''' Development mode "iUbuntu" is the hostname of Ishan's PC ''' DEBUG = TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True else: ''' Production mode Anywhere else than Ishan's PC is considered as production ''' DEBUG = TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False if socket.gethostname() == 'iUbuntu': '''Development''' ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*', ] else: '''Production Won't let anyone pretend as us''' ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['domain.com', 'www.domain.com', 'api.domain.com', 'analytics.domain.com', 'ops.domain.com', 'localhost', '127.0.0.1'] (I don't get what's the purpose of this section of the code. Since I inherited the code from someone and the server was working I didn't bothered removing it without understanding what it does) if socket.gethostname() == 'iUbuntu': MAIN_SERVER = 'http://localhost' else: MAIN_SERVER = 'http://domain.com' I can't figure out what's the problem here. The same code runs fine with gunicorn on my laptop. I have also made a small hello world node.js to serve on the port 8000 to test nginx configuration and it is running fine. So no nginx errors. UPDATE: I set DEBUG to True and copied the Traceback http://pastebin.com/ggFuCmYW UPDATE: Thanks to the reply by @ARJMP. This indeed is the problem with celery consumer not getting connected to broker. I am configuring celery like this : app.config_from_object('woc.celeryconfig') and the contents of celeryconfig.py are: BROKER_URL = 'amqp://celeryuser:celerypassword@localhost:5672/MyVHost' CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'rpc://' I am running the worker like this :celery worker -A woc.async -l info --autoreload --include=woc.async -n woc_celery.%h And the error that I am getting is: consumer: Cannot connect to amqp://celeryuser:**@127.0.0.1:5672/MyVHost: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer. Continue reading...