Django App Heroku Deployment

django_heroku_deployment.md

Django app Heroku Deployment

Steps to deploying a Django app to Heroku

Install guinicorn locally

pipenv install gunicorn
or
pip install gunicorn

Install Heroku CLI

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli

Login via CLI

heroku login

Create app

heroku create 

Set Remote repository

heroku git:remote -a <app-name>

Create Procfile

touch Procfile

# Add this
web: gunicorn <app-name>.wsgi

Install whitenoise to serve static files

pip install whitenoise

Create requirements.txt

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Run the project locally using the gunicorn server

heroku local

Deploy with Git

git init
git add . && git commit -m 'Deploy'
git push heroku master

Visit app

heroku open