localhost Won't Immediately Update

Question

I have been using XAMPP to connect to localhost to do editing on my computer for websites. I have been using it for over a year now and in the past whenever I would update t

Answer 1

I experienced this is issue recently using Django 2.1. I tried every browser, cleared my cache multiple times, triple checked that I was using Python's SimpleHTTPServer in the same directory I was writing my code, and even did a full reboot... No luck.

Right before throwing my MacBook out the window, I solved the problem by changing my Debug setting from False to True. Why did this work? I'm not quite sure since the documentation for this setting doesn't mention that kind of behavior at all, but it was the only thing I could remember recently changing to possibly allude to this ghost bug. If anyone has a specific source to confirm this information, please comment and I will edit my answer.

Hope this helps anyone about to Hulk smash their computer :-)