django-debug-toolbar not showing up

Question

I looked at other questions and can't figure it out...

I did the following to install django-debug-toolbar:

1. pip install django-debug-toolbar
2. added to middleware classes:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
    # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
)

3 Added INTERNAL_IPS:

INTERNAL_IPS = ('174.121.34.187',)

4 Added debug_toolbar to installed apps

I am not getting any errors or anything, and the toolbar doesn't show up on any page, not even admin.

I even added the directory of the debug_toolbar templates to my TEMPLATE_DIRS

Answer 1

I had the same problem using Vagrant. I solved this problem by adding ::ffff:192.168.33.1 to the INTERNAL_IPS as below example.

INTERNAL_IPS = (
    '::ffff:192.168.33.1',
)

Remembering that 192.168.33.10 is the IP in my private network in Vagrantfile.

Answer 2

In the code I was working on, multiple small requests were made during handling of main request (it's very specific use case). They were requests handled by the same Django's thread. Django debug toolbar (DjDT) doesn't expect this behaviour and includes DjDT's toolbars to the first response and then it removes its state for the thread. So when main request was sent back to the browser, DjDT was not included in the response.

Lessons learned: DjDT saves it's state per thread. It removes state for a thread after the first response.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

For me this was as simple as typing 127.0.0.1:8000 into the address bar, rather than localhost:8000 which apparently was not matching the INTERNAL_IPS.

Answer 5

I got the same problem, I solved it by looking at the Apache's error log. I got the apache running on mac os x with mod_wsgi The debug_toolbar's tamplete folder wasn't being load

Log sample:

==> /private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host2.example.com-error_log <==
[Sun Apr 27 23:23:48 2014] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/rblreport/rbl/static/debug_toolbar, referer: http://127.0.0.1/

==> /private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host2.example.com-access_log <==
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Apr/2014:23:23:48 -0300] "GET /static/debug_toolbar/css/toolbar.css HTTP/1.1" 404 234 "http://127.0.0.1/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0"

I just add this line to my VirtualHost file:

Alias /static/debug_toolbar /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/debug_toolbar/static/debug_toolbar

• Of course you must change your python path

Answer 6

For anyone who is using Pycharm 5 - template debug is not working there in some versions. Fixed in 5.0.4, affected vesions - 5.0.1, 5.0.2 Check out issue

Spend A LOT time to find that out. Maybe will help someone