upload-and-update-django-project-on-heroku

Configuring Django Apps for Heroku

First, and most importantly, Heroku web applications require a Procfile.

This file is used to explicitly declare your application’s process types and entry points. It is located in the root of your repository.

Procfile.py --->

web: gunicorn myproject.wsgi

$ pip install gunicorn

$ pip install django-heroku

$ pip freeze > requirements.txt

Add the following import statement to the top of settings.py:

import django_heroku

Then add the following to the bottom of settings.py:

# Activate Django-Heroku.
django_heroku.settings(locals())

Add this in settings.py-->

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

** PS: if Heroku isn't recognized as a command, please close your terminal and editor and then re-open it.

DEBUG = False # in settings.py

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['your_app_name.herokuapp.com', 'localhost', '127.0.0.1'] # in settings.py

New project upload command -->

$ git init

$ git add .

$ git commit -m "first commit"

$ heroku login

$ heroku create app_name

$ heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

$ git push heroku master

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

Create super user -->

$ heroku run:detached python manage.py createsuperuser

Project Update -->

$ heroku login

$ heroku git:remote -a app_name

$ git add .

$ git commit -am "make it better"

$ git push heroku master

Model Migrate -->

heroku run python manage.py migrate