Django app on Heroku

Deploying steps

heroku login

• It will ask you heroku account email and password

cd project_root

• (project_root is file that has manage.py)

heroku create

• It will create a new heroku app that has a random name(btw you can change it :)

• use pip install and following library name

pip install

• dj-database-url docs

• django-heroku docs

• gunicorn docs

• whitenoise docs

• pipenv docs

• run following command in project_root(project_root is file that has manage.py) after pipenv installed

pipenv install

• Add following lines to settings.py(last line)

import django_heroku
django_heroku.settings(locals())

• create Procfile(no- file extension. only Procfile). open and write following line

 web: gunicorn application_name.wsgi --log-file - 

• (application_name is folder name which has wsgi file)

• if collectstatic error while pushing heroku, you can use following command

heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
python manage.py collectstatic

• Now it is time to push it

git push heroku master

• if you are not working on master branch or if you get up-do-date warning you can use

git push heroku some-branch-name:master

• after push and deploy is successful run following commands

• (if you did migrations before you pushed you repo)

heroku run python manage.py migrate

• (if you did not do migrations before you pushed you repo)

heroku run python manage.py makemigrations
heroku run python manage.py migrate

Authors

• Mevlana - Initial work - mevlanaayas

Acknowledgements

• I hope it works well for you. I ll be happy for any kinds of suggestions