pythonbangla.com | dynamic content management system for publishing youtube

Let assume our project name will be djangodemo.
First clone this project or fork and clone your fork url
Now run and install django by pipenv
Downlaod and install PostgreSQL
Run the PostgreSQL in your machine
Download pgAdmin if you prefer managing PostgreSQL visually
Run pgAdmin to create database visually
Or Create a database in PostgreSQL in terminal
Update django frameworks's project settings djangodemo/pythonbangla_project/settings.py
Apply database migration from django to postgresql This will convert all the models to SQL tables in postgresql
Start django server locally
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in a web browser. You will see the following blank webpage without any contents
Quit the server with CONTROL-C in terminal
Django by default doesn't support serving static files in production. So the best and recommended way to upload static files in CDN network. In this case, I like Amazon S3 CDN and its super easy to use.
First you need to create a Amazon Aws account
You have to create S3 bucket/container. To know how to proceed follow this tutorial
Install two new libraries
Updates project's settings.py file
Add 'storage' above the app within INSTALLED_APPS
At the bottom of setting.py write and update the following codes and fill the ID, KEY, BUCKET_NAME from your account.
Also special notice AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN this part. If you create different location for your bucket, you have to update it s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com and have to give proper location
Now run the following command to automatically upload your project static files to Amazon S3
If you visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser, now all the static content will be served from amazon S3 not from your local dir.
Well now finally we can deploy our project in web server. For me, I found it is quite easy to use Heroku one of the popular python app hosting site. Heroku also has free tier package. So you can upload any python web project there, test and if satisified you can upgrade to premium service. Then you can add your own domain. Also heroku provides PostgreSQL service as well.
Create an account on Heroku
Install Heroku CLI (Command Line Interface) in your machine. Follow heroku tutorial
Also I assume you have git installed in your machine and you can use git by typing commands in terminal/shell
Now create a new file named Procfile
Now open the Procfile in any editor and add the following code to specify heroku to use Gunicorn web server.
Install gunicorn in your machine
Now run the following heroku commands in Terminal/Shell
When asks for email/password, provide your heroku account credentials.
After login successfully, create a heroku project by
Now run the following command to set heroku's git's remote url to your project name
Now disable auto collection static files here i assume you are using Amazon S3 or other service
visit heroku dashboard click your app
Then click Heroku Postgres within Installed add-ons section
Then go to settings and click view database credentials
Now copy those info and update your django project's settins.py DATABASES->Default section
Add '*' in Allowed hosts in settings.py
Now run the following git commands to add your changes and commit them
Now push the code on heroku
Finally start web process on heroku
Now you can browse your heroku app in your web browser. If you got the name django-demo-2018 you can browse https://django-demo-2018.herokuapp.com/
If you don't want to use Amazon S3 or other CDN service and want to server static contents from heroku then you can follow this way to solve the problem.
Before following Setup And Running in Heroku without static content steps follow this:
Install the whitenoise package
Open settings.py and within INSTALLED_APP write whitenoise command between messages and staticfiles
In setting.py, within MIDDLEWARE add whitenoise between session and common
In setting.py at the bottom add the following lines