/Deploying-to-heroku

Deploying-to-heroku

Steps to Deploy Django Apps on Heroku

  • Create a Procfile in the root folder and type web: gunicorn <name of your app>.wsgi
  • Create requirements.txt in the root folder by pip freeze >requirements.txt
  • Create a runtime.txt in the app root folder and type the python version your app is using for example python-3.6.3
  • Setup the static assets by:

    • In your settings.py ``PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file))

      Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)

      • STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'staticfiles')
      • STATIC_URL = '/static/'

      Extra places for collectstatic to find static files.

      STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static'),) ``

    • Install whitenoise python3.6 -m pip install whitenoise

    • Add whitenoise to your wsgi.py file. ``import os from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application from whitenoise.django import DjangoWhiteNoise

      os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "bootcamp.settings")

      application = get_wsgi_application() application = DjangoWhiteNoise(application) ``

    • Update settings.py STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'

    • Deploy: git add .;git commit -m "Deploy to heroku";git push heroku master;heroku open