I followed the instructions here:
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/python/tutorials/django-with-visual-studio/
However, whenever I try to open the url to my web app in the cloud I get a 500 error.
The tutorial doesn't mention setting up the TEMPLATE_DIRS setting in the django application or doing any work on the cloud service machine to install python/django. Could these be the problem?