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How to deploy Django to Heroku
Most of you would’ve already seen n number of blogs on how to deploy Django projects to Heroku but in this article, I shall explain in simple words in a sequential manner without much confusion.
We shall consider a simple project without any additional boiler plate code. I shall call the project as mysite and app as appOne.
I shall start from scratch and attach this repository at the end of this tutorial.
python3 -m venv Environ
source Environ/bin/activate
python -m pip install djangopython -m venv Environ
cd Environ/Scripts/
activate
cd ../../Continuing this:
django-admin startproject mysite
cd mysite
django-admin startapp appOneThis is how your tree will look after running those commands successfully :
mysite
│ manage.py
│
├───appOne
│ │ admin.py
│ │ apps.py
│ │ models.py
│ │ tests.py
│ │ views.py
│ │ __init__.py
│ │
│ └───migrations
│ __init__.py
│
└───mysite
asgi.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
__init__.pyfrom pathlib import Path
import os
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')
DEBUG = os.environ.get('DEBUG')
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []Once you've created the Django project, please add the security key to your Environment secrets and Config Vars.
We don’t have any static files for this project, but if needed you can use whitenoise.
MIDDLEWARE = [
'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
]
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'In config vars set DEBUG_COLLECTSTATIC = 1.
After configuring the project, we'll now be freezing the requirements and Procfile
pip freeze>requirements.txtweb: manage.py makemigrations && manage.py migrate
web: gunicorn mysite.wsgi:appCommit all these files to your git repository and push it to your source .
I’ll be using GitHub for this tutorial
I’ll be using GitHub for this tutorial
git init .
git add .
git commit -m “Initial Commit🚀”
git remote add origin <link>
git push -u origin masterGo to dashboard and deploy
It should be working fine! Feel free to reach out if there are any issues.
View the deployment here at: https://testing-repos.herokuapp.com/
Repository at: https://github.com/AbhijithGanesh/Tutorial-for-Heroku
Repository at: https://github.com/AbhijithGanesh/Tutorial-for-Heroku
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