Django 1.11 Heroku

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Dan Loewenherz edited this page Oct 5, 2017 · 6 revisions

Features

Libraries

Includes a requirements.txt with libraries that promote Django best practices, such as:

Django storages, for support with many file storage backends.
Statictastic, for an easy way to sync static media to your storage backends.

Deployment

$ heroku create
$ heroku config:set APP_ENVIRONMENT=production
$ heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX
$ heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX
$ heroku config:set AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=XXX
$ git push heroku master

Get started

To start a new Django project called project_name, run the following.

django-admin.py startproject -e md,ngx,ini,Procfile --template=https://github.com/lionheart/django-template/archive/django-1.11-heroku.zip project_name