Django Heroku Mezzanine Bare Bones

Django and Heroku generally play nicely but sometimes Mezzanine has some quirks that cause issues, this template aims to rectify that.

Requirements

• A Heroku account
• An AWS S3 bucket for hosting media content

Features

• Django 1.11.28
• Mezzanine 4.2.3 & Cartridge 0.13.0

Setup

1. Create local postgres database (default user / pass = postgres)
2. Create your Amazon S3 Bucket with the name of your project
3. mkvirtualenv $project_name
4. pip install django==1.11.28
5. django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/petedermott/django-heroku-mezzanine-bare-bones/zipball/master --name=Procfile --extension=py,md,env $project_name
6. cd $project_name
7. Update $project_name/settings.py with your AWS / Heroku details (most of which are at the top of the file)
8. Add your SECRET_KEY
9. Set a DEBUG environment variable to True
10. pip install -r requirements.txt
11. ./manage.py migrate
12. runserver
13. ./manage.py createsuperuser

Contributing

Comments, feedback and pull requests are all welcome