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How to manage local vs production settings in Django?
What is the recommended way of handling settings for local development and the production server? Some of them (like constants, etc) can be changed/accessed in both, but some of them (like paths to ...
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H14 error in heroku - "no web processes running"
error H14 happen while deploying to heroku
this is my procfile:
web: gunicorn -w 4 -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT -k gevent main:app
log on heroku:
2017-01-23T10:42:58.904480+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=...
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Collectstatic error while deploying Django app to Heroku
I'm trying to deploy a Django app to Heroku, it starts to build, download and installs everything, but that's what I get when it comes to collecting static files
$ python manage.py collectstatic --...
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Deploying Django with gunicorn and nginx
This is a broad question but I'd like to get a canonical answer. I have been trying to deploy a site using gunicorn and nginx in Django. After reading tons of tutorials I have been successful but I ...
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Is virtualenv recommended for django production server? [closed]
I have always been using virtualenv for testing my app in localhost since I have isolated environment and can safely test new release of packages.
Now It comes the time when I have to deploy my app ...
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Web application monitoring best practices [closed]
We are finishing up our web application and planning for deployment. Very important aspect of deployment to production is monitoring the health of the system. Having a small team of developers/support ...
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From virtualenv, pip freeze > requirements.txt give TONES of garbage! How to trim it out?
I'm following this tutorial:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django
At some point I'm suposed to do:
pip freeze > requirements.txt
(Ofc. from virtualenv created instance of python)
And I ...
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How can I detect Heroku's environment?
I have a Django webapp, and I'd like to check if it's running on the Heroku stack (for conditional enabling of debugging, etc.) Is there any simple way to do this? An environment variable, perhaps?
I ...
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Deploying Google Analytics With Django
We're about to deploy a new Django website, and we want to use Google Analytics to keep track of traffic on the site. However, we don't want all of the hits on development instances to contribute to ...
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Atlassian Bamboo with Django & Python - Possible?
At my company, we currently use Atlassian Bamboo for our continuous integration tool. We currently use Java for all of our projects, so it works great.
However, we are considering using a Django + ...
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Best Fabric scripts for Django [closed]
What are the best stock Fabric scripts for deploying a typical Django project? Fabric looks very good, but seems to require you to start from scratch and write your own deployment script. Coming from ...
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Django: Not Found static/admin/css
I just deployed my first Django app on Heroku but I notice that it doesn't have any CSS like when I runserver on the local machine. I know there's something wrong with static files but I don't ...
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How to ignore directories when running Django collectstatic?
I am running a small test project with Django 1.3, Ubuntu 11.10, gunicorn and Nginx, everything in a virtualenv, and now I'm running collectstatic to get my static files into the directory that Nginx ...
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How do I create a superuser account in Django 1.9.6
I am reading a book ("Learning Django Web Development" by Sanjeev Jaiswal and Ratan Kumar) on Django, but the book is based on an earlier version of Django (prior to version 1.9). In order to ...
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Deploying Django on Google App Engine ==> ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) NOT_FOUND: Unable to retrieve P4SA(...)
I'm trying to deploy a Django application on Google App Engine. I followed the instructions given here. The only problem is that when I execute the command gcloud app deploy I than get the error:
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when to use fabric or ansible?
OVERVIEW
I'd like to have reliable django deployments and I think I'm not following the best practices here. Till now I've been using fabric as a configuration management tool in order to deploy my ...
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how to deploy django under a suburl behind nginx
I have a django application running on http://localhost:12345 .
I'd like user to access it via url http://my.server.com/myapp .
I use nginx to reverse proxy to it like the following:
... ...
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Backup strategy for django
I recently deployed a couple of web applications built using django (on webfaction).
These would be some of the first projects of this scale that i am working on, so I wanted to know what an ...
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How to gracefully restart django running fcgi behind nginx?
I'm running a django instance behind nginx connected using fcgi (by using the manage.py runfcgi command). Since the code is loaded into memory I can't reload new code without killing and restarting ...
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What is the disadvantage of using Django's fastcgi server
I'm using nginx + fastcgi( manage.py runfcgi ...) on production for some of my Django projects. A lot of people suggests to use nginx + gunicorn. What is advantage of using gunicorn instead of using ...
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Which webserver to use with Django? (updated for use in 2011)
I am asking this question because I am a beginner and I've read almost 90% of articles speaking about Django, but the problem is:
Django was made and had problems for deploying, it is python, and ...
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how do I deploy Django on AWS? [closed]
I'm looking to deploy a django app on AWS (since I have some credit coupon) and am looking for a good place to read about it - mostly b/c I never used it before. thanks
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Error: No module named staticfiles
I'm newbie with django, I'm trying to deploy my project on a production server but I'm getting this error:
Error: No module named staticfiles
When trying to start the server:
python manage.py ...
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Managing multiple settings.py files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to manage local vs production settings in Django?
I have managed to deploy successfully a Django project on Apache's Web Server with mod_wsgi.
I would like some ...
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gunicorn.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'
I was deploying a django app and it failed because for some reason the gunicorn.socket file was not created even though before adding nginx it worked perfectly fine so I searched the internet and ...
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Deploying django in a production server
First of all please let me be clear that I am a windows user and very new to the web world. For the past months I have been learning both python and django, and it has been a great experience for me. ...
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Deploying Django (fastcgi, apache mod_wsgi, uwsgi, gunicorn)
Can someone explain the difference between apache mod_wsgi in daemon mode and django fastcgi in threaded mode. They both use threads for concurrency I think.
Supposing that I'm using nginx as front ...
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No web processes running Django in heroku
I was trying to deploy my application in heroku, but when i finally try to run my application in heroku I het in the browser this:
Application Error
An error occurred in the application and your page ...
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Store static files on S3 but staticfiles.json manifest locally
I have a Django application running on Heroku. To store and serve my static files, I'm using django-storages with my S3 bucket, as well as the standard Django ManifestFilesMixin. I'm also using django-...
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Django - Deployment for a newbie [closed]
I have finished my first Django/Python Project and now I need to put the things working in a real production webserver.
I have read some papers over the Internet and I'm inclined to choose Ngix, ...
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Good tool for automatic setup and deployment of Django projects [closed]
2021 update
Today I'm using Ansible for this and other devops tasks. Along the way I've experimented with Chef, Puppet, Saltstack and Docker images, but I've found that for me, as a solo developer ...
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setup.py exclude some python files from bdist
I have a django project with this kind of architecture :
setup.py
project/
__init__.py
manage.py
settings/
__init__.py
base.py
dev.py
urls/
__init__.py
base.py
dev.py
I wanted to deploy it in a ...
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Heroku/python failed to detect set buildpack
I'm a Django newbie, I created an app and want to deploy it using Heroku. However, when I do git push heroku master (I follow Heroku's getting started), this is what I got:
Counting objects: 36, done....
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Minimum server requirements for a django project [closed]
I want to deploy a django project with the following stack: Django with Nginx, Gunicorn, virtualenv, supervisor and PostgreSQL.
I was thinking to use a Linode 1GB server which has:
1 GB RAM
1 CPU ...
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Django newbie deployment question - ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings'
The app runs fine using django internal server however when I use apache + mod_python I get the below error
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 75, in ...
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Docker, web app static files. Best practices?
How do people tend to handle static assets in web deployment on docker?
For example, in a django app deployed in a container, do you have the app server serve up the static files from the container, ...
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk health check issue
My web application is Django and web server use Nginx, use Docker image and Elastic Beanstalk for deployment.
Normally there was no problem, but as the load balancer expands EC2, my web server ...
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Fabric + buildout as opposed to Fabric + pip + virtualenv
I've recently started playing around with Mezzanine, a django-based CMS. I recently just managed to configure Fabric to get it uploading to my host, webfaction.com, as its a bit more involved ...
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Deploy Django with Gunicorn and APACHE
I have a Django project and I wanna delivery it using gunicorn (and apache proxing).
I can't use Nginx, so that's no possible.
I've set the Apache proxy and setup a runner script to gunicorn, but i ...
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Django and multi-stage servers
I am working with a client that demands multi-stage server setup: development server, stage server and production/live server.
Stage should be as stable as it can be to test all those new features we ...
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Django Deployment: Handling data in database
Right now I am using git for Django deployment which seems satisfying to me. My only problem is still how to handle the data in the database properly. Eg. I need often to edit data coming from the ...
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Should I use git to deploy websites? [closed]
I have a site running on django, (but the question applies to anything, php, etc)
Currently I'm using unison to deploy my changes, and I (kinda used to) love it because before that I was doing it ...
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Jython + Django not ready for production?
So recently I was playing around with Django on the Jython platform and wanted to see its performance in "production". The site I tested with was just a simple return HttpResponse("Time %.2f" % time....
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Deploying a (single node) Django Web application with virtually zero downtime on EC2
Question: What are good strategies for achieving 0 (or as close as possible to 0) downtime when using Django?
Most of the answer I read say "use south" or "use fabric", but those are very vague ...
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Which are the best web free hosts to practice Django deployment? [closed]
I'm a beginner with Django but I'd like to see my projects online without having to pay for the host as it is just to learn to deployment process.
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Django / Apache / mod_wsgi: No module named importlib
After working with django's dev server for the past two months, the time finally came to move to apache + mod_wsgi.
The problem is when I go to my site (let's call it junux), to the URL mapped to ...
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Deploying Django to Heroku (Psycopg2 Error)
So I'm following the getting started guide from heroku with django. However when I run this command:
heroku run python manage.py syncdb
I get this error
psycopg2.OperationalError: could not connect ...
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Problems configuring deployment with Heroku/gunicorn/django
I'm trying to run my django application on heroku.
Folder structure:
app/
Procfile
docs/
...
project/
manage.py
wsgi.py
<django apps>
Procfile
web: gunicorn --pythonpath=...
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Private settings in Django and Deployment
I am using Django and deploy my stack with Ansible. Finally, I am using Fabric to deploy my Django project pulling my code from GitHub.
My question: What is the best practice to deal with private ...
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