Django Deployment Deploying with Heroku
Example
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Download Heroku Toolbelt.
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Navigate to the root of the sources of your Django app. You'll need tk
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Type
heroku create [app_name]. If you don't give an app name, Heroku will randomly generate one for you. Your app URL will behttp://[app name].herokuapp.com -
Make a text file with the name
Procfile. Don't put an extension at the end.web: <bash command to start production server>If you have a worker process, you can add it too. Add another line in the format:
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Add a requirements.txt.
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pip freeze > requirements.txt - Otherwise, get a virtual environment!. You can also manually list the Python packages you need, but that won't be covered in this tutorial.
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It's deployment time!
git push heroku master
Heroku needs a git repository or a dropbox folder to do deploys. You can alternatively set up automatic reloading from a GitHub repository at
heroku.com, but we won't cover that in this tutorial.heroku ps:scale web=1
This scales the number of web "dynos" to one. You can learn more about dynos here.
heroku openor navigate tohttp://app-name.herokuapp.com
Tip:
heroku openopens the URL to your heroku app in the default browser. -
Add add-ons. You'll need to configure your Django app to bind with databases provided in Heroku as "add-ons". This example doesn't cover this, but another example is in the pipeline on deploying databases in Heroku.
