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

I also experienced this problem as I was loading the debug setting from an environment variable DEBUG = os.environ.get('DEBUG_MODE')).

This set the DEBUG value as a string, not a boolean.

To fix this, I hardcoded DEBUG = False in my prod settings file.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

This ended up being an issue with the config variable being "False" instead of False, and so debug wasn't properly set to the boolean value. Shoutout to @WithNail for helping get to the answer