Pythonanywhere

Create a pythonanywhere account in www.pythonanywhere.com
Go through the pythonanywhere quick tutorial.




Overview

• Dashboard - provides you a general view
• Consoles - allows you to interact with your webserver and project through consoles
• Files - provides a graphical interface to interact with your files
• Web - allows you to create a webapp for a Django project
• Forums - provides you a good support system
• Account - lets you manage account plans and configurations

Creating a Web app

1. Go to Web
2.  + Add a new web app 
3. Next
4. Manual configuration (including virtualenvs)
5. Choose the Python version
6. Next (wait some seconds)

Creating a virtual environment

1. Go to Consoles
2. Start a Bash Console
    

    Creating the virtual environment

   mkvirtualenv myfirstenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.10

    

    

    Activating the virtual environment

   workon myfirstenv

   
   
   Installing Django and Pillow

   pip install django
   pip install Pillow

    

3. Go back to Web and scroll down to: Virtualenv 
   For me having a username jaimedcsilva38130 and a virtual environment myfirstenv the path is:
   
   /home/jaimedcsilva38130/.virtualenvs/myfirstenv
    

Configuring the web server
 

• Scroll down to Code
• Sourcecode: /home/jaimedcsilva38130/mysite
• WSGI configuration file

  import os
  import sys
  
  path = '/home/jaimedcsilva38130/mysite'
  if path not in sys.path:
      sys.path.append(path)
  
  os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
  
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  application = get_wsgi_application()

• Scroll down to Static files and add the following entries for URL and Directory
  Adjust to your username. In my case it's jaimedcsilva38130
   

  URL	Directory

  /static/

  /home/jaimedcsilva38130/mysite/staticfiles

  /media/

  /home/jaimedcsilva38130/mysite/media

Preparing to go to production

Before you finish, set DEBUG to False, whenever you are in production.

DEBUG = False

Add your pythonanywhere domain to ALLOWED_HOSTS 
Add localhost as well for whenever you bring the project back to development.

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', 'jaimedcsilva38130.pythonanywhere.com',]

Pythonanywhere
 

• Go to Files and upload your zipped project (maxium size for a single file is ≈ 100MB)
  
  
   
• In Consoles, go to the Bash Console
  
  Unzip the project

  unzip mysite.zip

  Collect the static files

  python manage.py collectstatic

• Go to Web 
• Scroll down to Security and Force HTTPS
• Reload the web app