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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 - provies 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. Django
5. Choose the latest available version for Python and Django
6. Choose a project name
7. Next (wait some seconds)

Creating a virtual environment

1. Go to Consoles
2. Start a Bash Console
    

    Creating the virtual environment

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

    

    

    Activating the virtual environment

   workon jaimedcsilva

   
   
   Installing Django

   pip install django

    

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

Preparing to go local

• In Consoles, go to the Bash Console
• Zip the Django project in the root:

  zip -r mysite.zip mysite/

• In Files, download your project by clicking in the download icon 

Local computer
 

• While in your computer unzip the project 
• Add localhost to the ALLOWED_HOSTS

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

• Developing: make any necessary modifications to your project

Preparing to go to production

Before you finish, set DEBUG to False

DEBUG = False

Pythonanywhere
 

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

  unzip mysite.zip

• Go to Web and reload the web app