Heroku Django Starter Template

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

  1. Create your working environment.
  2. Install Django ($ pip install django)
  3. Create a new project using this template

Creating Your Project

Using this template to create a new Django app is easy::

$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile helloworld

(If this doesn't work on windows, replace django-admin.py with django-admin)

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

My helping commands

wget -qO- https://cli-assets.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh //download and install heroku cli

heroku --version

heroku login

mkdir myapp

cd myapp

heroku create

django-admin startproject --template=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile  myproject

source ../virenv/bin/activate

sudo apt-get install postgresql
sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
pip install -r requirements.txt 

heroku local web //to run locallly


git add .
git commit -m "Added a Procfile."
heroku login
heroku create
git push heroku master

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