mglagola / django-heroku-template

(Deprecated) Template for django + heroku + Amazon S3 (1.5.1 django supported/tested)

Django + Heroku Template

This template was only tested with and only works with Mountain Lion OS X (Mac). This may change in the future.

See a full, in depth tutorial on how to use the template HERE

Why use it?

This template simplifies the setup process of creating a Django project that's ready to be pushed to Heroku with Amazon S3 support.

• It takes about 3 minutes to setup and run a local django project using this template.

• It takes under 10 minutes to setup and run a django project using this template on Heroku (Following this Tutorial). Setting up and install requirements on Heroku for the first time is what takes the most time!

Requirements

• OS X
• virtualenv
• heroku toolbelt
• git
• Amazon S3 Account (Get AWS Keys Ready!)

Setup

Below is a brief overview on how to setup the template. I recommend going through a more in depth tutorial HERE.

1. Download .zip and extract it to your desired directory.
2. Rename the root folder to whatever you like. DO NOT modify any other files.
3. cd into your recently renamed root folder.
4. Run git init in terminal.
5. run virtualenv .env in terminal (You may name your virtualenv anything you like).
6. Activate your virtual environment by running source .env/bin/activate in terminal.
7. run pip install -r requirements.txt in terminal (~1min).
8. run python setup.py in terminal. Follow the prompts and make sure to have your amazon S3 keys ready.
9. reactivate your virtual environment by running source .env/bin/activate

• Your project is now setup. You can test locally by running python manage.py syncdb and then python manage.py runserver in terminal.
• You could also test it on the herokuapp site. Just make sure you run syncdb on your heroku app.

License is MIT

Copyright (c) 2013 Mark Glagola. See License.txt