Herokuin

A project template for Django 1.6.2 with production settings to easily deploy on Heroku with statics on S3 made for Prowl.

Pre-requisites

• A Heroku account, and Foreman installed
• Git
• virtualenv
• An AWS account that supports S3 & Route 53

1. Create the Prowl working environment

    $ mkdir hellodjango && cd hellodjango
    $ virtualenv venv --distribute
    $ source venv/bin/activate

2. Install Django along with South (if you haven't done so already)

    $ pip install django && south 

3. Create the new project using a template

    $ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/Montana/herokuin.git --extension=py,rst,html hellodjango .

4. Install additional dependencies for development (not for production)

    $ pip install -r requirements/local.txt

5. Deploy to Heroku

    $ heroku create
    $ git push heroku master

6. Set Heroku environment

    $ heroku config:set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=hellodjango.settings.production
    $ heroku config:set SECRET_KEY=my_random_secret_key
    $ heroku config:set AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=my_application_bucket
    $ heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=my_key_id
    $ heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=my_secret_key
    $ heroku ps:scale web=1
    $ heroku run python hellodjango/manage.py collectstatic

7. Finally

    $ heroku open