Django not recognizing user form email verification link: - html

Question

I've spent the last week on this like 20 hours and can't figure it out. This is my very first Django application.
I have tested the 'urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk))' in shell and it works to pass the user's 'uid', however it does not work in the application itself. I get that the 'activation link is invalid' for all links even though the link passed the correct primary key, I'm not sure what is going wrong.
Please help.
views.py/registration page
from_email, subject = 'domain <info#domain>', 'Email verification'
htmly = get_template('activation_email_template.html')
username = user.username
message = render_to_string('activation_email.html', {
'user':user,
'token':account_activation_token.make_token(user),
'uid':urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk)),
})
d = {'username': username, 'url':reverse('activate',
kwargs={
'token':account_activation_token.make_token(user),
'uidb64':urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.uid))
})}
html_content = htmly.render(d)
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, message, from_email,[user.email])
msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
msg.send()
here is my activate/views.py:
try:
uid = force_text(urlsafe_base64_decode(uidb64))
user = User.objects.get(pk=uid)
except(TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError, User.DoesNotExist):
user = None
if user is not None and account_activation_token.check_token(user, token):
...
else:
return HttpResponse('Activation link is invalid!')
For some reason I'm getting 'Activation Link is invalid' every time I try this. I know it's sending the right PK, because I can clink on the url and the url is correct with the correctly encoded pk. However, the activate view does not recognize this pk.
here is my activation_email.html:
{% autoescape off %}
Hi {{ user.username }},
Thanks for creating an account. Please click on the link to confirm your registration,
http://domain{% url 'activate' uidb64=uid token=token %}
{% endautoescape %}
This is the activation_email_template:
<h3>Hi <strong>{{ username }}</strong>,</h3>
<p>Thanks for creating an account. Please click on the following link to confirm your registration:</p>
<a style="background-color: #f79407 ;padding: 10px 15px; text-decoration: none;color: #ffffff;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 15px;" href="https://domain{{ url }}">Email Activation</a>
Please help!
Tried this to get at errors in activation link, but still just get activation link is invalid:
try:
uid = force_text(urlsafe_base64_decode(uidb64))
user = User.objects.get(pk=uid)
except TypeError:
print('typerror')
user=None
except ValueError:
print('valueerror')
user=None
except OverflowError:
print('OverflowError')
user=None
except User.DoesNotExist:
print('user.DoesNotExist')
user=None
if user is not None and account_activation_token.check_token(user, token):
....
else:
raise ValidationError('user is none')