There are a lot of cloud platforms that provide great services but I chose the Heroku cloud platform because it is easy to use and they offer free and I do not need to add my credit card for payment at the early stage. It is also the cheapest option for a low traffic site like my blog site.

 

 

 

Sign Up To Heroku

 

I visit the Heroku website heroku.com then I click the Sign Up button to create my account then I receive a confirmation message in my email to confirm my password.

 

 

 

Install Heroku Toolbelt

 

Using my Mac terminal I type the command :

 

$ brew tap heroku/brew && brew install heroku

 

 

After installing Heroku Toolbelt I log in to my account using the terminal:

 

$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: myemailaddress@gmail.com
Password (typing will be hidden):
Authentication successful.

 

 

 

Preparing The Application

 

Here is the list of things I need to add to my project:

 

Add a Procfile in the project root.

Add requirements.txt file with all the requirements in the project root.

Add Gunicorn to requirements.txt.

A runtime.txt to specify the correct Python version in the Project root.

 

 

 

The Procfile

 

Create a file named Procfile in the project root with the following content:

 

web: gunicorn Codehub.wsgi --log-file -

 

 

 

The requirements.txt

 

I simply run in my terminal:

 

pip freeze > requirements.txt

 

This is how my requirements.txt looks like:

 

altgraph==0.14
astroid==1.6.0
beautifulsoup4==4.6.0
certifi==2018.11.29
chardet==3.0.4
dj-database-url==0.5.0
Django==2.1.3
django-ckeditor==5.6.1
django-js-asset==1.1.0
docopt==0.6.2
et-xmlfile==1.0.1
future==0.16.0
gunicorn==19.9.0
idna==2.8
isort==4.2.15
jdcal==1.4.1
lazy-object-proxy==1.3.1
macholib==1.8
mccabe==0.6.1
openpyxl==2.6.3
pefile==2017.11.5
Pillow==5.4.1
pipreqs==0.4.9
psycopg2==2.7.3.2
PyInstaller==3.3
pylint==1.8.1
PyQt5==5.9.1
pytz==2018.7
requests==2.21.0
sip==4.19.5
six==1.11.0
urllib3==1.24.1
whitenoise==4.1.2
wrapt==1.10.11
yarg==0.1.9

 

 

 

The runtime.txt

 

I create a file named runtime.txt in the project root and I put the specific Python version of my project use:

 

python-3.6.3

 

 

 

Set Up The Static Assets

 

Configure the static related parameters on settings.py:

 

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)

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

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'


# Media files (uploaded images)

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

 

 

 

Deployment

 

I login to Heroku using toolbelt:

 

$ heroku login

 

 

Inside the project root, I create a Heroku app:

 

$ heroku create codehub

 

 

I add PostgreSQL database to my app:

 

$ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev

 

 

Now I login to Heroku Dashboard and access my recently created app.
I click on the Settings menu and then on the button Reveal Config Vars and I add SECRET_KEY that I copied from settings.py

 

 

 

Push To Deploy

 

$ git status
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Deploy Codehub"
$ git push origin master
$ git push heroku master

 

 

 

Migrate The Database

 

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

 

 

 

Create A Superuser Account

 

$ heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser
Username: username
Email address: myemailaddress@gmail.com
Password: 
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.

 

 

And finally, my app is live on https://codehubbyjadedanial.herokuapp.com

 

 

 

 

Please feel free to submit the feedback below. I appreciate it.

 

Thank You and Happy Coding.

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