Check out my heroku delopyment here! cool count

Why Heroku?

Heroku is a good option for the fast setup and easy deployments since its environment configuration is fairly simple. It is initially free!

Firstly, start a virtual environment. Check this post to know more about virtual environment.

Activate the virtual environment with:

$ source venv/Scripts/activate

Create a “requirements.txt” and “static” folder as follow:
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In settings.py, add the following lines:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
]

Install WhiteNoise:

$ pip install whitenoise

It allows your own hosted website to serve its own static files.

And add the following in setting.py:

MIDDLEWARE = [
  # 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
  'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
  # ...
]

Copy all the installed files:

$ pip freeze > requirements.txt

Create “Procfile” (no file type)

web: gunicorn cool_counters.wsgi --log-file -

Note: cool_counters is an app name

Copy all files from your static folders into the STATIC_ROOT directory:

python manage.py collectstatic

Push all the changes to Github and deploy it to heroku!

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References
http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/howto/static-files/