problems setting up django-toolbar: the bar is not shown

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I am trying to set up django-toolbar in my production site, so just certain IPs can use it. I have followed the official documentation (install and quick setup), but I can't see the toolbar.

The app is installed:

$ yolk -l | grep toolbar
django-debug-toolbar - 0.11.0       - active

I have added the required settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.sitemaps',

    'modeltranslation',

    'djangocms_text_ckeditor',
    'cms',
    'mptt',
    'menus',
    'south',
    'sekizai',

    'debug_toolbar',
    # more stuff...
)

INTERNAL_IPS = ('---.---.---.---',) # my current ip, taken from the server logs so I'm sure it's correct

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

DEBUG = True

There's no error message. I have also run collectstatic just in case. No success.

Any suggestion? Thanks :-)

EDIT: it seems that the order within INSTALLED_APPS matters. Moving 'debug_toolbar' right after all 'django.contrib.*' and before 'modeltranslation' and the others solved the issue.

What does the browser inspector output? do you see the toolbar js scripts and everything? if yes then you need to check your HTML code (make sure your tags are properly closed). — petkostas, Feb 18 '14 at 10:53
Thanks for your suggestion. Using the inspector, I can't find any django-toolbar related js file... neither on the site itself nor the admin pages. — sogeking, Feb 18 '14 at 11:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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Have you set the INTERNAL_IPS to what is in request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] (second answer here)?

I had a similar problem, the toolbar wasn't displaying and I couldn't figure out why. But when I printed request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] my IP wasn't what I thought it was! (because I was using port forwarding and virtual box).

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Feb 18 '14 at 15:00

Patrick

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I have put into INTERNAL_IPS the ip address shown at /var/log/httpd/access_log when I access my server, so I suppose it's the public one. You're right, I thought that my IP was another. But anyhow it doesn't work even after restarting apache. – sogeking Feb 18 '14 at 17:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '14 at 09:42

I found out the reason. Within INSTALLED_APPS, 'debug_toolbar' must appear as soon as possible. I had placed some other applications before ('modeltranslation', 'cms', etc.). Placing it just after all 'django.contrib.*' and before the others works fine.

problems setting up django-toolbar: the bar is not shown

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