Overview

This is a sample project to demonstrate how to configure a heroku hosted django app to use s3 for static files. It uses the twitter bootstrap project to provide some boilerplate content.

You can read a description of the process in this blog post: http://iknuth.com/2011/10/deploying-a-django-app-to-heroku-with-easy-static-files-on-s3/

Instructions

Setup your environment.

• virtualenv --no-site-packages . -p /usr/local/bin/python2.7
• source bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• createdb blogdemo

Run the project locally.

• python om/manage.py syncdb
• python om/manage.py runserver And open http://localhost:8000

Deploy the project to heroku.

• heroku create --stack cedar
• git push heroku master
• heroku run python om/manage.py syncdb

Create an s3 bucket and add your AWS keys and info to settings.py.

Deploy your static files

• python om/manage.py collectstatic

This command is run locally. No need to involve heroku.

And you are ready to go

• heroku open