Question

By reading the official django documentation I haven’t understood much about it.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging/#configuring-logging

I would like to enable logging also if DEBUG in settings.py is set to True.
I would like the errors to be logged in a file.

How to do that?

These are the default django settings for logging which I currently have now:

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
        'require_debug_false': {
            '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'propagate': True,
        },
    }
}

PS:
I’m using Apache + mod_wsgi in my development environment because I use a development machine which i access remotely on my LAN, this means i’m not using the django development server and I can’t see the console log messages.

Answer 1

Django logging is not disabled by default in either DEBUG mode unless you have set it to.

Add below to your handlers part of LOGGING

'file':
        {
            'level':
                'INFO',
            'class':
                'logging.FileHandler',
            'formatter':
                'verbose',
            'filename':
                'myapp.log'

        }

It will log to myapp.log file in your project root. You can specify a complete path.

And add a formatters field to the Logging dict

'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(module)s %(process)d %(thread)d %(message)s'
        },
        'simple': {
            'format':
                '%(levelname)s %(message)s'
        },
    },