django DEBUG=False still runs in debug mode

Question

I\'m having issues setting my DEBUG = False on my deployed server (on heroku).

I don\'t believe I\'ve seen this before, but setting debug to false is not

Answer 1

When you use the module decouple (pip install python-decouple) make sure you cast DEBUG to a bool. Thus settings.py should have the following line:

from decouple import config

DEBUG = config('DEBUG', default=False, cast=bool)

where in the .env file

DEBUG = False # or True