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

As a note for others: I had the same problem; I configured my production website on a VM with gunicorn and nginx, following the tutorial for ubuntu 16.04 from the digital ocean documentation.

I wasn't able to turn off the debug mode, even when restarting the nginx systemd's service: the solution was to restart also the gunicorn service:

# systemctl restart nginx gunicorn