Django logging throws 500 internal server error

I am having problems logging in my Django project.

In my view.py in an "application" I am doing the following:

import logging

logging.basicConfig(filename="django.log",level=logging.DEBUG)

def request(request):
    logging.debug("test debugging")

with a django.log file in the same directory as the view.py file.

Now when making a request from the browser I keep getting a 500 Internal Server error as shown in Firebug. I can get logging to work just fine when I simply run it through the interactive python shell or executing it from a .py file like the following:

import logging

logging.basicConfig(filename="django.log",level=logging.DEBUG)

def testLogging():
    logging.debug("test debugging")

if __name__ == "__main__"
    testLogging()

, and then executing pytho开发者_JAVA技巧n nameOfFile.py.

What am I doing wrong? I am running Django 1.1.1 and Python 2.6.5. Maybe I should upgrade Django?

Could it be related to permissions? I can imagine that in a web-server environment, writing to a file may be restricted. In truth, I don't know, but please check the official Django logging documentation - it uses the standard logging module, but you may have to configure it differently.

Is that your entire view? It would have been helpful to post the actual traceback, but note that a view must return an HttpResponse, even if it's an empty one. So if that is your entire view, the 500 error is probably happening because you're not returning anything.

Add return HttpResponse() to the end of that view, and if that still doesn't work, please post the traceback itself.