/django-heroku-deploy-roadmap

A little info about django and heroku deploy steps

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

Acknowledgements

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