Deploy project on Heroku
Minimal configuration to host a Django project at Heroku
- mkdir directory_name
- cd directory_name
- virtualenv -p python3 .vEnv
- . .vEnv/bin/activate
- pip install django
- django-admin startproject myproject
- git init
- Create a file called
.gitignore
with the following content:
# See the name for you IDE
.idea
# If you are using sqlite3
*.sqlite3
# Name of your virtuan env
.vEnv
*pyc
- git add .
- git commit -m 'First commit'
- git push -u origin master
- pip install python-decouple
- create an .env file at the root path and insert the following variables
- SECRET_KEY=Your$eCretKeyHere (Get this secrety key from the settings.py)
- DEBUG=True
- from decouple import config
- SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY')
- DEBUG = config('DEBUG', default=False, cast=bool)
- pip install dj-database-url
- from dj_database_url import parse as dburl
default_dburl = 'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3')
DATABASES = { 'default': config('DATABASE_URL', default=default_dburl, cast=dburl), }
pip install dj-static
- from dj_static import Cling
- application = Cling(get_wsgi_application())
- STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
pip freeze > requirements-dev.txt
Create a file requirements.txt file and include reference to previows file and add two more requirements
- -r requirements-dev.txt
- gunicorn
- psycopg2
- web: gunicorn website.wsgi --log-file -
- python-3.6.0
You should install heroku CLI tools in your computer previously ( See http://bit.ly/2jCgJYW )
- heroku apps:create app-name Remember to grab the address of the app in this point
- include your address at the ALLOWED_HOSTS directives in settings.py - Just the domain, make sure that you will take the protocol and slashes from the string
- heroku plugins:install heroku-config
- heroku plugins:install heroku-config
- heroku config:push -a
- heroku config
- git add .
- git commit -m 'Configuring the app'
- git push heroku master --force
- heroku run python3 manage.py migrate
- heroku run python3 manage.py createsuperuser
- heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
- heroku config:set DEBUG=True
git remote add https://git.heroku.com/api-pontos-turisticos.git git commit -m 'Configuring the app' git remote add heroku1 https://git.heroku.com/api-pontos-turisticos.git git push heroku1 master --force heroku run python3 manage.py migrate --remote heroku1