Logging and email not working for Django for 500

I can't get logging to work in my Django web app.

My settings file looks like this:

EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_PORT = 465
EMAIL_HOST_USER = "paulhtremblay@gmail.com"
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = "password"
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "paulhtremblay@gmail.com"
SERVER_EMAIL = 'smtp.gmail.com'

ADMINS = (
      ('Paul Tremblay', 'paulhtremblay@gmail.com'),
      )

 LOGGING = { 
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'handlers': {
    'file': {
        'level': 'ERROR',
        'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
        'filename': '/var/log/django_logs/debug.log'
    },
    'mail_admins': {
     'level': 'ERROR',
       'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
               },
},  
'loggers': {
    'django': {
    'handlers': ['file'],
    'level': 'ERROR',
    'propagate': True,
    },
    'django.request': {
    'handlers': ['file'],
    'level': 'ERROR',
    'propagate': True,
    },
},  
 }

I have this in my views file:

 def five_hundred_test(request):
   raise ValueError("raising this on purpose for testing for 500")
   return render(request, 'my_test/basic_css.html')

When I point my browser to this function, I get a 500 Error (as expected), but nothing gets sent to my email, and nothing gets put in the log file. I am using Django 1.9, with python3, using Apache to run the server.