Deploying your own Umonya website is simple. It can be deployed on Heroku with minimal effort. We guide you through this process below. For people familiar with Django: this is a run-of-the-mill Django project. Feel free to deploy it any way you want. Just remember to assign a value to the SECRET_KEY production setting (important info here)
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Install the Heroku Toolbelt locally. Heroku has instructions at https://toolbelt.herokuapp.com/. Follow the instructions to the end to set up an SSH key, etc.
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Clone the Umonya website repo.
git clone [email protected]:Umonya/website.git- Enter the project directory.
cd website- Create the new application.
heroku create- Configure your deployment. Replace
SECRET_KEYwith your own value as specified here.
heroku config:set 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=website.settings.prod' 'DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=SECRET_KEY'- Upload your application. This might take a while as Heroku deploys the application.
git push heroku develop:master- Create a superuser when prompted. The superuser can be used to manage your site content.
heroku run python manage.py syncdb- Finish setting up the database.
heroku run python manage.py migrate- Check out your newly deployed site!
heroku openYou need to generate a random 50-character secret key to use for your Umonya deployment. After doing that, use it in production by setting an environment variable called DJANGO_SECRET_KEY. Step 5 above shows how to do it using the Heroku CLI. Do NOT use SECRET_KEY in https://github.com/Umonya/website/blob/develop/website/settings/dev.py since it is visible to the public. It it only there for dev convenience.