USER STORY: Create Config Vars & static files

[chris-townsend]

User Story:

As a developer, I can add my config vars to my app in Heroku so that I can allow deployment to production

Acceptance Criteria:

• Config vars are viewable from the 'settings' tab of your app within Heroku

Related User Stories:

#1 Create Heroku App

#4 Cloudinary Setup

Tasks:

• Login to your Heroku account and select the App

• Go to the settings tab and scroll down to Config Vars

• USER STORY: Cloudinary Setup #4 Setup Cloudinary

• Add correct config vars

  • CLOUDINARY_URL
  • DATABASE_URL
  • SECRET_KEY
  • PORT - 8000
  • DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC - 1 (only used for development)

• Copy Cloudinary API Environment variable in your Cloudinary dashboard

• Add variable to your env.py file

• Add 'cloudinary_storage' & 'cloudinary' to INSTALLED_APPS

• Tell Django to use Cloudinary to store our static files

• Add to settings.py -
  STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'cloudinary_storage.storage.StaticHashedCloudinaryStorage'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'cloudinary_storage.storage.MediaCloudinaryStorage'

• Add to the build paths -

  • TEMPLATES_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')

• Add 'DIRS': [TEMPLATES_DIR], to TEMPLATES

• Add Heroku host name to ALLOWED_HOSTS

  • ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['kitchen-tales.herokuapp.com', 'localhost'] (localhost is added so we can run it locally)

• Create 3 new folders in the top level of the project

  • 'media'
  • 'static'
  • 'templates'