Yii2 debug bar not showing on staging server even with allowedIP's entry

Question

I'm trying to get the debug bar in Yii2 to show on my staging server but for some reason it isn't showing.

Here is code from my web.php config file:

if (YII_ENV_DEV) {
    // configuration adjustments for 'dev' environment
    $config['bootstrap'][] = 'debug';
    $config['modules']['debug'] = [
                                   'class' => 'yii\debug\Module',
                                   'allowedIPs' => ['127.0.0.1','::1','123.45.67.89']
                                   ];

    $config['bootstrap'][] = 'gii';
    $config['modules']['gii'] = 'yii\gii\Module';
}

123.45.67.89 obviously is just an example for the server's real IP.

I get the servers IP by doing:

$host = gethostname();
$server_ip = gethostbyname($host);

If I try and access the debug page by going to:

http://www.example.com/debug/default/index

I get the message: You are not allowed to access this page.

I am sure I had this working before but now it's not working for some reason and I can't figure out why!?

I'm aware there are debug data files (not sure if they will contain any info on why I can't see it) but I am not sure how I can view the data properly?

Answer 1

i know this is old but it may help someone now since this isn't very clear anywhere on the web.

We used to have this problem a lot when deploying to test and dev servers. Add this to your main-local.php

if (!YII_ENV_TEST) {
    // configuration adjustments for 'dev' environment
    $config['bootstrap'][] = 'debug';
    $config['modules']['debug'] = [
        'class' => 'yii\debug\Module',
        'allowedIPs' => ['*']
    ];
    $config['bootstrap'][] = 'gii';
    $config['modules']['gii'] = [
    'class' => 'yii\gii\Module',
    ];
}

DO NOT DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION SERVER!!!!