[Django]-ValueError: Unable to configure handler 'file': [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

I also faced the same issue, in my case the permissions of the logging file was not right.
so i changed the permissions to read and write to all user with the cmd

sudo chmod a+rwx debug.log

In case someone get it useful: In my case the error was triggered by a permissions issue. Once i change permissions and let app user write in folder this was solved.

In my Django project, I implemented some logic that would handle a situation like this:

we can declare some log-path, and if it doesn’t exist we can create the path:

# LOGGING
LOG_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'log')
LOG_FILE = '/api.log'
LOG_PATH = LOG_DIR + LOG_FILE

if not os.path.exists(LOG_DIR):
    os.mkdir(LOG_DIR)

if not os.path.exists(LOG_PATH):
    f = open(LOG_PATH, 'a').close() #create empty log file
else:
    f = open(LOG_PATH,"w").close() #clear log file

Then in our Logging dict we can add the following to our "file" section of the handlers

LOGGING = {
  ...
    'handlers': {
        'file': {
           ...
            'filename': LOG_PATH, 
           ...           
        },
        'console': {
           ...
        }
    },
    
}

1. Check whether log file exist in /Users/deon/Documents/PyCharmProjects/Developments/deonproject/log/debug.log location.
2. Check these location have proper write permission
   In my case the ransomware protection was turned on and it preventing it from permission issue
3. Open the Code editor RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR mode

your log path does not exist.
Make sure this path exists

'/Users/deon/Documents/PyCharmProjects/Developments/deonproject/log/debug.log'

In my case it was due to permission denied as django commands were executed as not owner of the logger files

For example if your handler is configured as

"handlers": {
        "console": {
            "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
            "formatter": "console",
        },
        "file": {
            "level": "INFO",
            "class": "logging.FileHandler",
            "formatter": "file",
            "filename": "logs/jirate.log",<-----
        },
        "django.server": DEFAULT_LOGGING["handlers"]["django.server"],
    },

ensure that you have the folder logs created in the same level as your manage.py. Django will automatically create the jirate.log file

This error can be caused if you haven’t created the folder of logs file

• Go to the setting.py file and check the path of your logs file
• Follow the path and create the folder