Django REST Framework 401 error with valid credentials

I'm having an issue where I send a POST request to an api endpoint restaurant/api-token-auth and I get a 401 error with the json response:

{ "detail": "Invalid token." } 

This response is appearing even though I'm sending the right credentials in the POST request (username and password). In this case I tried my admin account and it still gives me this response.

This is my code for urls.py (app level):

from django.urls import path from . import views from rest_framework.authtoken.views import obtain_auth_token urlpatterns = [ path('home/', views.index, name='index'), path('menu/', views.MenuItemView.as_view()), path('menu/<int:pk>', views.SingleMenuItemView.as_view()), path('api-token-auth/', obtain_auth_token) ] 

urls.py (project level):

from django.contrib import admin from django.urls import path, include from rest_framework import routers from restaurant.views import BookingViewSet router = routers.DefaultRouter() router.register(r'tables', BookingViewSet) urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.site.urls), path('restaurant/', include('restaurant.urls')), path('restaurant/booking/', include(router.urls)), path('auth/', include('djoser.urls')), path('auth/', include('djoser.urls.authtoken')), ] 

settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'restaurant', 'rest_framework', 'rest_framework.authtoken', 'djoser', ] ...(rest of code) REST_FRAMEWORK = { 'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES' : [ 'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer', 'rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer', ], 'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES' : [ 'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication', 'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication', ] } DJOSER = {"USER_ID_FIELD" : "username"} 

I tried manually creating tokens using the admin panel and using the djoser api endpoint auth/token/login and it works but this way it doesn't.