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PythonAnywhere provides a platform for deploying python-based web applications, but it’s web server takes a bit of configuring. Let’s take a look at how you configure PythonAnywhere to use the correct virtual environment and WSGI settings.
So my virtual environment is set up,
my requirements are all installed,
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it's time to get this project running on
the actual pythonanywhere web server.
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So I'm gonna come back over here to the
dashboard, so not the console's tab and
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I'm gonna click on the Web
tab up here at the top and
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I'm gonna choose Add a new web app button.
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Now for this workshop and for a lot of the
things that you're gonna deploy cuz you're
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just wanting to test something out,
show something to friends,
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things like that, it's totally fine to
use the free version of Pythonanywhere.
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So go ahead and click Next, and
you get this list of preconfigured stuff.
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Pythonanywhere gets used for
deploying a lot of Python stuff.
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So they have some
preconfigured deployments for
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different Python web frameworks.
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I want to control a lot of things though,
so I'm gonna choose Manual configuration.
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And now I need to choose the Python
version that I'm using, I'm using Python
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3.5 and then I'm gonna click Next, so that
I can handle all the manual configuration.
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Now there are a lot of options in here .So
I'm gonna walk you through several of them
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once it switches over there.
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You can see it's working as it
has a little spinning icon thing.
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The first thing to talk about is this
big green button right here at the top.
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Any time you change your configuration and
you want to make that configuration go
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live, you're gonna click this Reload
button and that's gonna restart your
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deployment or it's like restarting the
server so that people can see the changes.
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The next thing to notice
is this big orange
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yellow button which says Run
until three months from today.
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If you're on the free plan, Python
will rerun your app for three months.
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If you want it to run
longer than three months,
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in three months you have to come back and
click this button again.
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If you're paying though,
that doesn't happen.
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So if you have something that's running
and you want it to keep running for
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a long time and you don't mind
paying a little bit of money,
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then this is a good reason to upgrade.
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Okay, so now,
let me go down here to the code section.
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Now there's two things here
that I need to change.
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The first thing I need to change
is the working directory.
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So I want to set this to be
the directory that my code lives in,
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so my code lives here inside
this djangoal directory.
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So PWD, this is effectively
what I want to put in there, so
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I could actually just copy that and
paste it into there.
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And then I think I need a slash on the end
of it to make Pythonanywhere happy so
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that I clicked the little check mark.
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The next thing I need to do is
edit this WSGI configuration file.
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So I'm gonna right click on that and
choose Open in new tab and
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this is the WSGI file
that Pythonanywhere uses.
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Now, I can't use the one
that I put in my repo,
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like I can't tell Pythonanywhere
to just use that one.
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But I'm going to keep
it in my repo just so
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that I have it for
tracking changes that I make to it.
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So, what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna
select all of this one, delete it,
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come over here, select all of this one,
copy it, and then paste it into here.
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So, my WSGI file is now in here, but
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it's not the WSGI file
that's actually in my repo.
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Then I'm gonna click Save and
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then I can close this tab
because I don't need it anymore.
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And now I've got this whole thing set up.
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Another thing that I want to configure
is the Virtualenv because I wanna
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use the packages that I installed.
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So I'm gonna enter a path
to a Virtualenv and
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the path to my Virtualenv
is /home/kennethtreehouse.
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So that part there is going to change for
you because It'll be your username.
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And then Virtualenv's/venv.
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And then I'm gonna click the check
the mark again because that's
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the Virtualenv that I created and
installed all of my things too.
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The cool thing is that now I
could start a console here and
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I'd have all my packages available and
all of that kind of stuff.
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Now before I reload my configuration,
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there is one more thing I
wanna point out to you.
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And that's this Log files section.
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So if you look right here there's
three different Log files,
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there's Access log,
Error log and Server log.
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If things go wrong,
this is a place where you can come and
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you can check these three Log files
to see what is going on, right?
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What things are being accessed,
what errors are being thrown,
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what does the server say,
all of that kind of stuff.
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To try and
debug whatever problem you may be having.
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Okay, this should all be done.
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I'm gonna scroll up here and click Reload,
and then when the spinner that's down here
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stop spinning, I'll be able to go and
check out my app and see if it works.
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So let's that's spin, spin, spin, spin.
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All right, and now I'm going to right
click on here choose Open in new tab and
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there's my Django app.
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So if you followed on and you can
see your Django app congratulations.
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Take a minute, feel accomplished,
enjoy the glow of having something live on
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the internet, but
don't send your link out just yet,
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your deployed web app isn't quite
ready for public consumption.
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In the next video I'm gonna
turn off some debug settings,
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I'm gonna collect the static files so
that White Noise can serve them better and
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I'll make the app weigh
more production ready.
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