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Stupid question, but you didn't mention it, so... What is DEBUG set to? It won't load unless it's True.
If it's still not working, try adding '127.0.0.1' to INTERNAL_IPS as well.
UPDATE
This is a last-ditch-effort move, you shouldn't have to do this, but it will clearly show if there's merely some configuration issue or whether there's some larger issue.
Add the following to settings.py:
def show_toolbar(request):
return True
SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK = show_toolbar
That will effectively remove all checks by debug toolbar to determine if it should or should not load itself; it will always just load. Only leave that in for testing purposes, if you forget and launch with it, all your visitors will get to see your debug toolbar too.
For explicit configuration, also see the official install docs here.
EDIT(6/17/2015):
Apparently the syntax for the nuclear option has changed. It's now in its own dictionary:
def show_toolbar(request):
return True
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
"SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK" : show_toolbar,
}
Their tests use this dictionary.
Debug toolbar wants the ip address in request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] to be set in the INTERNAL_IPS setting. Throw in a print statement in one of your views like such:
print("IP Address for debug-toolbar: " + request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'])
And then load that page. Make sure that IP is in your INTERNAL_IPS setting in settings.py.
Normally I'd think you would be able to determine the address easily by looking at your computer's ip address, but in my case I'm running the server in a Virtual Box with port forwarding...and who knows what happened. Despite not seeing it anywhere in ifconfig on the VB or my own OS, the IP that showed up in the REMOTE_ADDR key was what did the trick of activating the toolbar.
If everything else is fine, it could also be that your template lacks an explicit closing <body> tag—
Note: The debug toolbar will only display itself if the mimetype of the response is either text/html or application/xhtml+xml and contains a closing tag.
If you're developing with a Django server in a Docker container with docker, the instructions for enabling the toolbar don't work. The reason is related to the fact that the actual address that you would need to add to INTERNAL_IPS is going to be something dynamic, like 172.24.0.1.
Rather than trying to dynamically set the value of INTERNAL_IPS, the straightforward solution is to replace the function that enables the toolbar, in your settings.py, for example:
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
'SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK': lambda _request: DEBUG
}
Here are some more details for the curious. The code in django_debug_tool that determines whether to show the toolbar examines the value of REMOTE_ADDR like this:
if request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR', None) not in INTERNAL_IPS:
return False
so if you don't actually know the value of REMOTE_ADDR due to your dynamic docker routing, the toolbar will not work. You can use the docker network command to see the dynamic IP values, for example docker network inspect my_docker_network_name
The current stable version 0.11.0 requires the following things to be true for the toolbar to be shown:
Settings file:
DEBUG = TrueINTERNAL_IPS to include your browser IP address, as opposed to the server address. If browsing locally this should be INTERNAL_IPS = ('127.0.0.1',). If browsing remotely just specify your public address. INSTALLED_APPS = (..., 'debug_toolbar',) MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ('debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware', ...). It should be placed as early as possible in the list.Template files:
text/html
</html> tagStatic files:
If you are serving static content make sure you collect the css, js and html by doing:
./manage.py collectstatic
Note on upcoming versions of django-debug-toolbar
Newer, development versions have added defaults for settings points 2, 3 and 4 which makes life a bit simpler, however, as with any development version it has bugs. I found that the latest version from git resulted in an ImproperlyConfigured error when running through nginx/uwsgi.
Either way, if you want to install the latest version from github run:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar.git#egg=django-debug-toolbar
You can also clone a specific commit by doing:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar.git@ba5af8f6fe7836eef0a0c85dd1e6d7418bc87f75#egg=django_debug_toolbar
I tried everything, from setting DEBUG = True, to settings INTERNAL_IPS to my client's IP address, and even configuring Django Debug Toolbar manually (note that recent versions make all configurations automatically, such as adding the middleware and URLs). Nothing worked in a remote development server (though it did work locally).
The ONLY thing that worked was configuring the toolbar as follows:
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
"SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK" : lambda request: True,
}
This replaces the default method that decides if the toolbar should be shown, and always returns true.
I have the toolbar working just perfect. With this configurations:
DEBUG = TrueINTERNAL_IPS = ('127.0.0.1', '192.168.0.1',)DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {'INTERCEPT_REDIRECTS': False,}MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', )
I hope it helps
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