Deploy Django App to Heroku

This is a part of YouTube Tutorial video on How to Deploy a Django Application to Heroku. https://youtu.be/V2rWvStauak

Usage

• If you don't have git installed, follow this Tutorial and come back here.

• Make a copy of your project or use a seperate git branch.

• Make sure your virtual environment is activated.

• Add your dependencies to requirements.txt by typing in the terminal,

pip freeze > requirements.txt

• Add this in settings.py

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

• Make a Heroku account

• Download Heroku CLI

• Configure Django Heroku

• In your terminal, type in

git init
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"

heroku login
heroku create app_name
git push heroku master
heroku open

heroku run python manage.py migrate

** PS: if Heroku isn't recognized as a command, please close your terminal and editor and then re-open it.

• DEBUG = False in settings.py

• ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['your_app_name.herokuapp.com', 'localhost', '127.0.0.1'] in settings.py

• If you make edits, then just type in the terminal,

git add .
git commit -m "edit"
git push heroku master