Releasing the site on production
Setting Boorunaut on Heroku with PostgreSQL
Boorunaut is only compatible with Python 3. Check which version is instaled with the command python. You may be required to use the commands python3 and pip3 instead of python and pip.
To install Boorunaut on a Heroku server, you will need to make some changes on the default settings to make it work with PostgreSQL.
First, create a project for your site:
Once it's done, you need to add Heroku-related files. Create a requirements.txt
file on the root of the project with:
You will probably want to create a virtual environment here and install the requirements.txt
with pip to test your project. DigitalOcean has a tutorial for testing on Ubuntu (link).
Create a Procfile
for Heroku:
Configuring the settings.py file
You will need to make some adjustments to the default settings.py generated to use in production. These involve configurating a new database and transforming sensitive data into environment variables (an security measure).
Automatic configuration
Heroku has an library for automating the configuration of Django apps with Heroku sites, django-heroku. You need to add to your requirements.txt
:
Then, add to the end of your settings.py
:
Manual configuration
Firstly, you will need to turn your SECRET_KEY into an enviroment variable.
Then you can change the default SQLite database with a backend better suited for production.
For PostgreSQL (better compatibility with Heroku), replace the DATABASES
variable content with:
Remember to set environment variables on Heroku with the details of your PostgreSQL database and secret key.
Add your website on ALLOWED_HOSTS
:
Publishing
Once the configuration is done, you can initialize git on your project (if haven't already), commit the changes and be ready to push it to Heroku.
Remember to set DEBUG
to False
on settings.py
before sending to production!
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