diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f1d0673..d5939a9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 django
 git+https://github.com/andrewgodwin/yamdl
+gunicorn
diff --git a/yamdl_content/core/views.py b/yamdl_content/core/views.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39bcfbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yamdl_content/core/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from .models import Page
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+import os
+
+def test(request):
+    return HttpResponse(f"{Page.objects.count()} {os.getpid()}")
diff --git a/yamdl_content/settings.py b/yamdl_content/settings.py
index 8dad8f9..cfd53df 100644
--- a/yamdl_content/settings.py
+++ b/yamdl_content/settings.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
 # Application definition
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
-    'django.contrib.messages',
     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
     "yamdl",
     "yamdl_content.core"
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
-    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
 ]
 
diff --git a/yamdl_content/urls.py b/yamdl_content/urls.py
index a1e4c73..dad3a62 100644
--- a/yamdl_content/urls.py
+++ b/yamdl_content/urls.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Including another URLconf
     2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))
 """
 from django.urls import path
+from .core import views
 
 urlpatterns = [
+    path("test/", views.test)
 ]