The simplest way to deploy your django app in the heroku sky.
Deploying in heroku is super easy now. I have almost 10 running applications surve by heroku. Here is the most simplified steps that i did follow everytime.
Step 1: Create a Procfile in your project root(linux: touch Procfile) add this inside the Procfile.
web: gunicorn project_name.wsgi
Step 2: Add this in your app/settings.py
# add this under import os
import django_heroku
# Then all the way at the bottom of the file
# ...
django_heroku.settings(locals())
step-3: add this in your requirements.txt:
django
gunicorn
django-heroku
psycopg2
psycopg2-binary
** psycopg2 will be need for postgres db setup in production.
step-4:
login to your heroku cli
heroku login
step-5:
create new app if one doesn't yet exist
heroku create my-app-name
step-6:
create a new postgres database for your app
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
step-7:
run: ./manage.py makemigrations
You never need to makemigrations on the heroku server. You should always makemigrations locally then push them to the server. You should only have to migrate on the server.
step-8:
git add .
git commit -m "My application gonna fly in the heroku sky"
pit push heroku master
step-9:
After successfull deploy, run: heroku run python manage.py migrate
step-10:
create super-admin:
heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser
Here you go. Your app is live now. Yaaaayy....
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