Deploying Your Django App On Heroku

deployingDjangoAppOnHeroku.md

#Install The Following Packages Django==2.0.7 # django dj-database-url==0.5.0 # for your database whitenoise==4.0 # to manage your static files on heroku gunicorn==19.9.0 # to deploy your app on heroku django-heroku==0.3.1

#Include the following on your .gitignore file *.pyc *.pyo pycache/ db.sqlite3 notes.md !Note do not include your migrations

activate your virtual environment

$ source bin/activate - #ubuntu users

Create a Procfile file named 'Procfile'; add the following

web: gunicorn .wsgi --log-file - #Note should be the folder where wsgi is located

cd into your base directory then type the following:

$ heroku create

$ git status

$ git add .

$ git commit -m 'initial commit'

$ git push heroku master # to heroku

$ git push origin master # to you github repo # if you already have a github repo

$ pip freeze > requirements.txt # !important

$ git push heroku master

Add the following to your settings.py

''' At the beginning of settings.py ''' import dj_database_url # heroku import django_heroku # heroku

edit your allowed_hosts

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost', 'hack-jos.herokuapp.com'] # heroku

Add this to your apps

INSTALLED_APPS = [ .....# 'whitenoise.runserver_nostatic', # heroku, whitenoise python manage.py runserver --nostatic

]

Add this to your MIDDLEWARE

MIDDLEWARE = [ 'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware', # heroku manageing static files ]

Database

DATABASES = { 'default' : { 'ENGINE':'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', 'NAME': 'DB_NAME', # name of your database 'USER':'DB_USER', # user you created when creating your database 'PASSWORD':'DB_PASS', # password 'HOST':'localhost',# host 'PORT':'5432' # port } } Note when deploying on Heroku you are gonna use postgres

Add the following

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

# heroku

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'

db_from_env = dj_database_url.config(conn_max_age=500) # heroku

DATABASES['default'].update(db_from_env) # heroku

django_heroku.settings(locals())

# for django Delete your db.sqlite3 file

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

python mange.py createsuperuser

heroku run python manage.py makemigrations

heroku run python manage.py migrate

heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser

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