Setting DEBUG = False causes 500 Error

[Damon Jablons]

I work on my django site locally, and pull from the repository
remotely. On my local machine, I have DEBUG = True, and on my remote
machine I have DEBUG = False. Whenever I set the server's DEBUG to
False, the server presents a 500 error, and there's nothing to be
found in the Apache logs. If I set DEBUG to True, the site runs
perfectly fine.

Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

Here's my settings.py and local_settings.py on dpate.com: http://dpaste.com/150368/

[Ted Nyman]

Have you created a 404.html and 500.html in your template directory?

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[Damon Jablons]

I do have a 400 and 500 error page.

I've been mulling over this issue for a couple days and I just
discovered what it was. I was using the css/js compression app called
"compress" which only runs if DEBUG=True. It was throwing some error,
so I removed it and things work fine now.

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "Do'h!"

On Jan 25, 3:40 pm, Ted Nyman <tnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you created a 404.html and 500.html in your template directory?
>

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Damon Jablons <damonjabl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > I work on my django site locally, and pull from the repository
> > remotely. On my local machine, I have DEBUG = True, and on my remote
> > machine I have DEBUG = False. Whenever I set the server's DEBUG to
> > False, the server presents a 500 error, and there's nothing to be
> > found in the Apache logs. If I set DEBUG to True, the site runs
> > perfectly fine.
>
> > Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
>
> > Here's my settings.py and local_settings.py on dpate.com:
> >http://dpaste.com/150368/
>
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[Atamert Ölçgen]

Hi Damon,

On Monday 25 January 2010 22:37:45 Damon Jablons wrote:
> I work on my django site locally, and pull from the repository
> remotely. On my local machine, I have DEBUG = True, and on my remote
> machine I have DEBUG = False. Whenever I set the server's DEBUG to
> False, the server presents a 500 error, and there's nothing to be
> found in the Apache logs. If I set DEBUG to True, the site runs
> perfectly fine.

The server presents 500 on which URL? Is the `server` local machine or the
remote machine? Are you getting this error on development server or mod_wsgi
etc? How do you serve static files?

> Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

If your message was intented for telepathic group members please ignore my
questions above.

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[Damon Jablons]

Thank you for the concern.

I included a link to dpaste in my original response, but I think
google groups cut it out:
"Here's my settings.py and local_settings.py on dpa(s)te.com:
http://dpaste.com/150368/ "

[Karen Tracey]

2010/1/26 Damon Jablons <damonj...@gmail.com>

Thank you for the concern.

I included a link to dpaste in my original response, but I think
google groups cut it out:
"Here's my settings.py and local_settings.py on dpa(s)te.com:
http://dpaste.com/150368/ "

To debug a problem that only appears with DEBUG=False, you must set ADMINS to include a valid email address to send error reports to.  (Depending on your machine setup, you may also need to set EMAIL_HOST and other EMAIL_XXX values so Django can successfully send mail).  You don't appear to have done this, since the only "person" you have listed in ADMINS is John Doe with a pretty clearly fictional email address.

See: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#admins

Karen

[Eki]

I ran into exatly the same issue just now (10 years after your post). When I use compress in production with DEBUG=False, I get a 500 error. I wish I had read your post 5 hours ago... Everything works fine now.

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