Toolbar only showing up in my local environment when I add Workspaces-specific code?

Question

I followed the django-debug-toolbar installation instructions exactly (they're simple enough, right??) but the toolbar wouldn't show up. I monkeyed around with the positioning of 'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware' in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES a bunch because the docs suggested there could be an issue there but that didn't solve anything. So on a whim I tried adding the stuff in settings.py that Kenneth says is only if you're on Workspaces, and the toolbar showed up! Any idea why this might be??

Answer 1 · 2017-11-18T00:49:08Z

November 18, 2017 12:49am

Assuming you have done something like (below)

def show_debug_toolbar(request):
    return True

# EXAMPLE
# if my settings.py file was located in a 'project_8' folder.
# 
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
    'SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK': 'project_8.settings.show_debug_toolbar'
}

or Kenneths way

DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {
    'SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK': lambda x: True
}

and it still hasnt worked I would start asking a few other prereq questions such as.

Is 'debug_toolbar' in your INSTALLED_APPS
Does your projects urls.py contain the following?

# urls.py (project level)
# the urls.py, in same folder as wsgi.py

# make sure this is at the top.
from django.conf import settings

# urlpatterns = [
    # keep your other urls here..
# ]

# at the bottom add these lines. under your other urlpatterns.
if settings.DEBUG:
    import debug_toolbar
    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^__debug__/', include(debug_toolbar.urls)),
    ]+urlpatterns

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