DisallowedHost error using PythonAnywhere - python

I'm new to Python and Django, and I'm following this tutorial to learn some Django basics. I keep getting a DisallowedHost error. (Screenshot: https://ibb.co/c1beYG)
As per this post, I added 'chocoberrie.pythonanywhere.com' to the ALLOWED_HOSTS list in settings.py, and I made sure to include it in quotation marks and keep the brackets. I even added it to requests.py, at line 113 (indicated in the error message).
Additional screenshots: https://ibb.co/jwUNnb and https://ibb.co/fbmrfw
I also committed the changes to Git, and I double-checked the repository to make sure that the URL was added to ALLOWED_HOSTS. I also made sure to reupload the changes on PythonAnywhere.
After all that, I'm still getting the error! It's really frustrating, and I don't know what else to do. Any help would be much appreciated!
Note: I did see a way to "disable" this error in this post, but I'm using a newer version of Django, so I don't know how to apply this.

I did the same tutorial! To solve this problem you have to go in the settings.py file of your django application. You will find ALLOWED_HOST setting which will be blank by default. Enter the following replacing your pythonanywhere name with your's:- '<your-pythonanywhere-name>.pythonanywhere.com'
now git pull in bash console and reload the website!

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