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

Answer 1

An addition to previous answers:

if the toolbar doesn't show up, but it loads in the html (check your site html in a browser, scroll down)

the issue can be that debug toolbar static files are not found (you can also see this in your site's access logs then, e.g. 404 errors for /static/debug_toolbar/js/toolbar.js)

It can be fixed the following way then (examples for nginx and apache):

nginx config:

location ~* ^/static/debug_toolbar/.+.(ico|css|js)$ {
    root [path to your python site-packages here]/site-packages/debug_toolbar;
}

apache config:

Alias /static/debug_toolbar [path to your python site-packages here]/site-packages/debug_toolbar/static/debug_toolbar

Or:

manage.py collectstatic

more on collectstatic here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#collectstatic

Or manualy move debug_toolbar folder of debug_toolbar static files to your set static files folder