Django on Heroku¶ ↑

This is just a basic example of showing how to get the tutorial at docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/ running on Heroku

Example app available here: mo-django-tutorial.herokuapp.com

Instructions¶ ↑

1. Install Python, Distribute, Pip and Virtualenv: docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/osx/

2. Create a Virtualenv. Install the dependencies. Create an application, freeze dependencies and config database settings, and create a Procfile: devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django

3. Set your local database to sqlite in settings py. Make sure that APP_ROOT/db exists before running syncdb

   DATABASES = {
       'default': {
           'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
           'NAME': 'db/django_tutorial.sqlite3', # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
           'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
           'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
           'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
           'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
       }
   }
   

4. Change the production database settings at the bottom of setting.py to only apply on Heroku

   import os
   import dj_database_url
   if os.getcwd() == "/app":
     DATABASES['default'] =  dj_database_url.config()

5. I set the template dir relative to the app root

   TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
     ''.join([os.getcwd(),"/views"])
   )
   

6. Follow the tutorial at docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/

   Each commit represents a step in the tutorial, apart from some mid step commits and root redirect.

7. When done, create a Heroku app on the cedar stack (default by now) and push it.

   Migrate the databases by running

   heroku run python manage.py syncdb
   

   During this step, you’re beeing told to create an admin account and set the details for it.

8. All done!

   Visit yourappname.herokuapp.com