Logging enabled causes .env info alert

Using Django
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Django 5.1.3
Python 3.12.4

I have been instructed to get django logging operational for this POC . Seems straight forward. I’m having a couple of issues though. But I’m new to this so could be me as usual. Also 1 thing to note is all debug terminal feedback like print(‘’) etc. and pages loading all stop. no output to terminal. I have disable_existing_loggers set to False.

'disable_existing_loggers': False,

See below sample code from settings.py for .env

FYI path to error.log = .epsonVE\enoc_proj\error.log

1 - I see that it does create an error.log file. See path above. But it does not ever append anything to it.

2 - I get this weird info alert after running > python manage.py runserver . It all comes up and the project / apps work fine but I get the INFO alert below. 3 of them (2 are the same)

Seems to indicate I don’t have an .env file or in the right place. I know this to be incorrect because I have been using one for a long time and it’s loaded with all kinds of things:
i.e.: DJANGO SECRET KEY, ALL THE DATABASE CREDS AND HOSTING, API keys, DJANGO_DEBUG, DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS

These things are all working fine. So not an .env issue. I think.

These INFO alerts only happen when I have this code in the loggers section:

'': {   # **<-- root logger**
            'level': 'INFO',
            'handlers': ['console', 'file']
   },

FYI: One thing I notice is the 3 INFO alerts mention 2 of my apps (console_app and Turnover_app). Why these 2 only? I have 6 apps in this project.

Alerts received :

INFO C:\Users\EAI24909\OneDrive - Epson America\Desktop\Python Projects\epson.epsonVE\enoc_proj\console_app.env doesn’t exist - if you’re not configuring your environment separately, create one.

INFO C:\Users\EAI24909\OneDrive - Epson America\Desktop\Python Projects\epson.epsonVE\enoc_proj*console_app*.env doesn’t exist - if you’re not configuring your environment separately, create one.

INFO C:\Users\EAI24909\OneDrive - Epson America\Desktop\Python Projects\epson.epsonVE\enoc_proj*turnover_app*.env doesn’t exist - if you’re not configuring your environment separately, create one.

settings.py (code placed at end of the file.)

LOGGING = {  
    'version': 1,  
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,  
    'formatters': {  
        'verbose': {  
            'format': '{levelname} {asctime} {module} {message}',  
            'style': '{',  
        },  
        'simple': {  
            'format': '{levelname} {message}',  
            'style': '{',  
        },  
        'json': {  
            'format': '{"timestamp": "%(asctime)s", "level": "%(levelname)s", "message": "%(message)s"}',  
            'style': '%',  
        },  
    },  
    'handlers': {  
        'console': {  
            'level': 'DEBUG',  
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',  
            'formatter': 'simple',  
        },  
        'file': {  
            'level': 'ERROR',  
            'class': 'logging.FileHandler',  
            'filename': 'error.log',  
            'formatter': 'verbose',  
        },  
    },  
    'loggers': {  
        '': {   # **<-- root logger**
            'level': 'INFO',
            'handlers': ['console', 'file']
        },
        
        'django': {  
            'handlers': ['console'],  
            'level': 'INFO',  
            'propagate': True,  
        },  
        'django.server': {  
            'handlers': ['console'],  
            'level': 'ERROR',  
            'propagate': False,  
        },  
        'myapp': {  
            'handlers': ['file'],  
            'level': 'ERROR',  
            'propagate': False,  
        },  
    },  
}

settings.py

DEBUG = env.bool("DJANGO_DEBUG", False)
# Allowed Hosts Definition
if DEBUG:
    # If Debug is True, allow all.
    ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
else:
    ALLOWED_HOSTS = env.list('DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS', default=['example.com'])

SECRET_KEY = env("SECRET_KEY", default="unsafe-secret-key")
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In your app, how are you creating the logger object?

Where are you using that logger?

Are you emitting log records at the ERROR level? If so, where and under what conditions? (Are those conditions occurring such that you would expect a log record to be written?)

Where are all the places where you are loading the .env files?