Deploying Django on Heroku (opens in new tab)

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76 pointsabhiomkar14y ago18 comments

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CoffeeDregs14y ago· 6 in thread

Question: is this a hack to get some Python on Heroku or is it a valuable potential Django server? When I did Rails work, I loved Heroku. Now that I do Django work, I love ... well ... my own server. I'm sure I should check out the various like-Heroku-but-Django services out there, but I'm used to Heroku. Valuable? Or move along nothing to see here?

Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I?

Note 2: as this comment lingers, can anyone recommend a living, non-invite-only Django hosting service?

niels14y ago

I've used a couple of the django-heroku clones, Djangy, Gondor and Ep.io. Djangy is no more. Gondor is nice but lacking critical features (background jobs, caching... etc.), and generally seems like a sideshow to their consulting business. ep.io is ahead in features and quality so far. I have not tried DjangoZoom, as I was a little bit annoyed that they required me to pay for beeing in their beta test program.

jtauber14y ago

Gondor has caching (has for a while) and background jobs will be available this week. Gondor is not a sideshow to the consulting; if anything, it's the other way around :-)

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paltman14y ago

Gondor (https://gondor.io) now has open sign up.

abhiomkarOP14y ago

python apps are not officially supported by Heroku, Looks like python app support is added for Facebook Apps to run on Heroku? (http://www.heroku.com/facebook)

However, heroku.com says "Run Anything" :)

MostAwesomeDude14y ago

It's not a hack. Heroku's Cedar stack supports Python applications, first-class.

CoffeeDregs14y ago

Python and/or Django aren't listed anywhere here: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar

Suggests that Python/Django aren't so much first-class as incidental...

maaku14y ago· 5 in thread

This is running via runserver, right? Don't use this for production.

There are some nice pure-Python web servers though. To someone who knows more about Heroku's stack, if I replace “manage.py runserver” with, say, CherryPy, would there be any Heroku-specific performance issues to consider?

lamby14y ago

(I would use gunicorn)

kylefox14y ago

Good plan. From the Django documentation:

"DO NOT USE THIS SERVER IN A PRODUCTION SETTING."

(https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/django-admin/#runs... )

ymir14y ago

We made a nice recipe for production-ready Djanogo setup on Heroku http://www.askthepony.com/blog/2011/07/getting-django-on-her...

abhiomkarOP14y ago

gunicorn server will work, this makes it production ready.

Please replace runserver line with the below line in your Procfile

    web: bin/gunicorn_django --workers=4 --bind=0.0.0.0:$PORT django_project/settings.py

MostAwesomeDude14y ago

I have done this with Twisted and have yet to see any problems.

In your requirements.txt, add "Twisted". In your procfile, try something like:

    web: bin/python ./twistd -n web --port=$PORT --wsgi fully.qualified.app.name

astrofinch14y ago· 1 in thread

Or you could go for https://gondor.io/, a much more featureful solution by the makers of Pinax.

joelhaasnoot14y ago

I've been using this for my staging environment. Works well! Has support for the essential django tools (PIL, South, collectstatic), etc.

zachwill14y ago

Just a quick heads up, I made a Flask template with Gevent to get up and running on Heroku: https://github.com/zachwill/flask_heroku

dave_sullivan14y ago

That's really cool, thanks for posting. What's it using to serve the pages though, it looks like the django test server? Btw, not a ror dev (at all) but what does that typically use as a web server and how is heroku doing it? (not apache?)

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18 comments

17 comments · 5 top-level

CoffeeDregs14y ago· 6 in thread

Note: I see maaku's note about runserver, but I can hope can't I?

Note 2: as this comment lingers, can anyone recommend a living, non-invite-only Django hosting service?

niels14y ago

jtauber14y ago

Gondor has caching (has for a while) and background jobs will be available this week. Gondor is not a sideshow to the consulting; if anything, it's the other way around :-)

1 more reply

paltman14y ago

Gondor (https://gondor.io) now has open sign up.

abhiomkarOP14y ago

python apps are not officially supported by Heroku, Looks like python app support is added for Facebook Apps to run on Heroku? (http://www.heroku.com/facebook)

However, heroku.com says "Run Anything" :)

MostAwesomeDude14y ago

It's not a hack. Heroku's Cedar stack supports Python applications, first-class.

CoffeeDregs14y ago

Python and/or Django aren't listed anywhere here: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar

Suggests that Python/Django aren't so much first-class as incidental...

maaku14y ago· 5 in thread

This is running via runserver, right? Don't use this for production.

lamby14y ago

(I would use gunicorn)

kylefox14y ago

Good plan. From the Django documentation:

"DO NOT USE THIS SERVER IN A PRODUCTION SETTING."

(https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/django-admin/#runs... )

ymir14y ago

We made a nice recipe for production-ready Djanogo setup on Heroku http://www.askthepony.com/blog/2011/07/getting-django-on-her...

abhiomkarOP14y ago

gunicorn server will work, this makes it production ready.

Please replace runserver line with the below line in your Procfile

    web: bin/gunicorn_django --workers=4 --bind=0.0.0.0:$PORT django_project/settings.py

MostAwesomeDude14y ago

I have done this with Twisted and have yet to see any problems.

In your requirements.txt, add "Twisted". In your procfile, try something like:

    web: bin/python ./twistd -n web --port=$PORT --wsgi fully.qualified.app.name

astrofinch14y ago· 1 in thread

Or you could go for https://gondor.io/, a much more featureful solution by the makers of Pinax.

joelhaasnoot14y ago

I've been using this for my staging environment. Works well! Has support for the essential django tools (PIL, South, collectstatic), etc.

zachwill14y ago

Just a quick heads up, I made a Flask template with Gevent to get up and running on Heroku: https://github.com/zachwill/flask_heroku

dave_sullivan14y ago

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