Create Procfile, Pip Install django_heroku, python-decouple, dj_database_url, gunicorn

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, so we've got our app created on Heroku.
• 00:06 But we haven't actually pushed our website up there.
• 00:09 And before we do that, we need to make a couple of slight modifications to some
• 00:13 configuration files in order to make it play nice with Heroku.
• 00:16 Heroku has some certain requirements, and we just have to meet those requirements.
• 00:21 So that's what we're going to do in this video.
• 00:23 So let's head over to our terminal, and
• 00:26 the first thing we want to do is install three or four different things.
• 00:30 And I'm just going to do that now.
• 00:31 So we go pip install, and
• 00:33 the first thing we want is gunicorn like unicorn with a G in front of it gunicorn.
• 00:39 And this is a web server that we're going to use in Heroku,
• 00:42 Django comes with a very basic web server that we've been using.
• 00:46 Remember, it's running in our other terminal, get bashed terminal screen here.
• 00:50 But for Heroku, for professional web hosting, we need a better web server, and
• 00:54 that's what gunicorn is.
• 00:55 So pip install gunicorn, it's gone ahead and installed it.
• 00:58 Make sure again, you're in, you see this master you're in your Django website
• 01:01 directory and you see your virtual environment here.
• 01:04 So the next thing we want to install is pip install django_herok.
• 01:10 And this is just a little program that does something that Heroku wants done
• 01:14 behind the scenes.
• 01:15 So that's easy, the next one is pip install, python-decouple.
• 01:23 All right, I'm going to clear the screen here.
• 01:25 And then finally pip install
• 01:30 dj_database_url.
• 01:34 And what this does is it does some Postgres database stuff behind the scenes.
• 01:39 So Django comes with a database called SQL Lite.
• 01:42 It's a very basic database that you can use in development purposes.
• 01:45 But for professional web hosting, you need again a better database, and
• 01:50 Heroku requires the Postgres database.
• 01:53 Now, in our particular app, we're not actually doing any database stuff.
• 01:57 But still, there's that administration area that has some database stuff,
• 02:01 think back to the very beginning of the course when we looked at that.
• 02:04 So it's just a good idea to add this.
• 02:06 So okay, we've got all of the things installed that we need.
• 02:10 Now we need to add them to our app, and sort of make some configuration changes.
• 02:14 So the first thing we need to do is create a Proc file.
• 02:16 And a proc file just tells Heroku what kind of app your app is,
• 02:21 right, it's a web app.
• 02:23 So, to do that from our terminal here, we type touch,
• 02:25 that command will create a file.
• 02:27 And then we just type Procfile and make sure that P is capitalized in proc file.
• 02:32 So that worked, hopefully, we can head back over to our code here.
• 02:37 And we can see down here at the bottom, this new proc file has been created.
• 02:40 So if we click on this, now we just need to type
• 02:45 web:gunicorn, and then name our app and
• 02:51 our app's name is djangowebsite.wsgi.
• 02:56 And we can go ahead and save this.
• 02:58 And the reason why we call it Django website is because this directory right
• 03:02 here, when we first created our app, we named it Django websites.
• 03:05 That's the name of our app.
• 03:07 And you can see it's wsgi right here, response to that,
• 03:10 it's just a configuration file.
• 03:11 So that's all for this video, in the next video, we'll go ahead and
• 03:15 configure our settings.pyfile to handle all those other things we just installed
• 03:20 from the terminal and that'll be in the next video.

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