HTTP error: 500 Internal Server Error when just uploading the first PDF doc

[axlgit]

Hi,

fresh docker installation on Debian 10. I installed docker via

sudo docker pull jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

I had to fix the permisssions (missing +x) on manage.py in order to create my user, then I was able to login into the web interface with the credentials newly created (though it complained they were weak - for the moment it's ok), see logs in the txt file.

manage_createsuperuser.txt

Problem: I uploaded an invoice and when the transfer was completed I got HTTP error: 500 Internal Server Error
I have only one document type, no tags or other stuff configured.

How may I fix it?

Thanks, Alex

[jonaswinkler]

If you just pulled the docker image:

• Paperless requires redis. The docker-compose files take care of that. That's why the recommended way to get paperless running is docker-compose. That's all described in the documentation.

If there's an internal server error, there are probably errors in the log files / in the docker log. I'll need those to see what's going on.

• The most common issue for this is that redis is not configured properly.
• You should not need to run the docker commands as root. If you do, you probably have docker configured improperly.

[AlexKalopsia]

I had the same issue, and it was a stupid mistake where I set the environment variable as PAPERLESS_REDIS="redis://broker:6379" instead of PAPERLESS_REDIS=redis://broker:6379

[axlgit]

Thanks @AlexKalopsia and @jonaswinkler , eventually I reinstalled from scratch, it was faster.