[Answer]-How to create/make your app LOCAL with Heroku/Virtualenv/Django?

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A git push heroku_remote_name local_branch_name:master call will push that branch of code to Heroku. Heroku then does the following…

  • Pulls in code changes
  • Installs pip requirements listed in requirements.txt
  • Relaunches the “dyno” web server by invoking python manage.py runserver on the remote web server.

If you want to run the web application locally, you will want to create a virtualenv and invoke python manage.py runserver locally.

If you are on linux, here are a bunch of commands that should have you working smartly. If you’re not on linux, the steps should at least be illustrative of what you will want to do.

  • sudo apt-get install -y python-pip
  • sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
  • sudo pip install autoenv
  • cd path/to/project
  • mkvirtualenv venv_name_here
  • echo "source /home/your_username/.virtualenvs/venv_name_here/bin/activate" >> .env
  • cd .
  • python manage.py syncdb
  • python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
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