minimal-django-heroku

A lightweight Django server ready for deployment on Heroku.

Getting Started

Clone this repository: git clone git@github.com:iSuperMostafa/minimal-django-heroku.git

Setup the environment

1. Create virtualenv: virtualenv env
2. Activate env: source env/bin/activate
3. Install pipenv: pip install pipenv
4. Install requirements: pipenv install

Run the application locally

Run the server: gunicorn app.wsgi

Start with Heroku

Signup to Heroku here.

Install Heroku-CLI

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ruby-full
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://cli-assets.heroku.com/branches/stable/apt ./"
curl -L https://cli-assets.heroku.com/apt/release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install heroku
heroku login

Deploy to Heroku

heroku create --buildpack heroku/python
heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
git push heroku master
heroku logs