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Hi I'm Kenneth and I'm a Django teacher for Treehouse.

Building applications in Django isn't the most difficult thing in the world and

you've probably built a couple by now.

Either with Tree House or on your own.

Once you build your project though, you'll want the world to see it.

Years ago, deploying Python and Django sites was, well, it wasn't fun.

I remember keeping a very long text file of all the steps I needed to do to get

updates deployed on a site I built on a very early version of Django.

Thankfully, services like PythonAnywhere exist now that make this a lot simpler.

Unlike some platform as a services,

PythonAnywhere gives you live access to a server through a web browser.

It's actually pretty similar to how workspaces works here at Treehouse.

PythonAnywhere is a bit more involved than some platforms like Heroku, but

it's a better service if you want to know more about the underlying

technology of your site.

Stick around and

I'll show you how to put your Django site live on the Internet at PythonAnywhere.

So, I'm gonna start with a quick overview of the PythonAnywhere dashboard.

So, in your web browser, go to pythonanywhere.com and go ahead and

log in,

if you're not logged in already or sign up if you haven't created an account yet.

You should land immediately on this Consoles tab.

Now, I wanna remind you that I have no control overall PythonAnywhere looks like,

so this may very well look different by the time that you come here.

But as of the time of this recording,

this is what PythonAnywhere looks and works like.

So, Consoles is where you can create new consoles or

shells in the PythonAnywhere environment.

So, you can go into Bash, you can go into MySQL, you can go into different

versions of Python, you can even create custom consoles.

We'll be using this tab and

the PythonAnywhere Consoles very heavily during this workshop.

If I click on the Files tab, I'm given this web based file manager.

Now, I'm not gonna be using this much,

since most of the file management is going to happen either

in one of the PythonAnywhere consoles or in the console on my own computer.

But this is a place where you can go and you can edit your files,

move them between folders, create and delete folders, all of that kind of stuff,

to control your files and everything that lives in your PythonAnywhere world.

If I move over here to the Web tab,

this is a mostly empty screen, there's a button for creating a new web app.

I'll be coming back to this when I'm ready to deploy my Django project.

If I click the Schedule tab, I can see PythonAnywhere's web based task scheduler.

Now the project that I'm gonna deploy doesn't need scheduled tasks but

depending on what you end up building and putting on PythonAnywhere,

you may find yourself needing to run a task on a repeating basis, right?

So, you need to send out a new email to people every hour,

or you need to run some sort of cleanup script every ten minutes or whatever.

This is where you would do that.

The last tab is the Databases tab, and here you can see settings for

a default MySQL database, and that's what we're gonna be connecting our app to,

in the last video of this workshop.

For now though, I'm gonna jump all the way back over here to the Consoles tab and

I'm gonna start getting PythonAnywhere set up for my Django project.

So, I don't wanna launch a Python, iPython or PyPy shell at the moment.

I need to launch a Bash shell.

So, I'm gonna do that by right clicking where it says, Bash, and

I'm gonna select Open Link in New Tab.

And this gives me the shell.

And this should look pretty similar for

those of you who have used workspaces before.

This is very similar to the little console thing down at the bottom

of your workspace.

So, this is a Bash shell, just like you would get in Mac OS or Linux.

And this is where I'm gonna set up the environment to hold my app.

Now I want to have an isolated virtual environment for the app to run in, so

that way I can control exactly what packages are being used for this app.

So I'm gonna start by cloning my GitHub repo into my PythonAnywhere environment.

Now I'm using a repo that's made for this workshop, you can, of course,

use whatever repo your project lives in.

So, I'll have to identify with GitHub.

So I need to identify with GitHub, and then the cloning will actually happen.

All right, so, now I have all the files on the PythonAnywhere server.

So, now I'm gonna go into my project folder, which is called deploying_django,

and I'm gonna create a virtual environment for my project.

I'm gonna do this by using the mkvirtualenv, or

make virtualenv command.

And I wanna tell it which Python I want, which is Python 3.5.

And then the name for the virtual environment which is a venv.

This is a little different from how you've done virtual environments before on your

machine, where you've done like the python -mvenv command or

python 3 -mvenv.

This is using the virtualenv wrapper library,

which consolidates your virtual environments into one central location.

Which in this case, you can see here, it's in home/kennethtreehouse,

which is my PythonAnywhere username.virtualenvs,

this is where all of them live, instead of living in the project directory.

This installation takes a little bit of time, so I'm gonna just let this run.

And then when it's done, now I'm gonna check to make sure that I'm using

the Python that I just told it to use.

I can see that the virtual environment has been activated but

I just wanna double check.

So, if I do which python, I see that it's this one that was up here.

And if I was to do a python --version, then I see that it's 3.5,

which is the Python I told it to use.

So, now everything is set up and it's ready for

me to start getting the project actually live and deployed on PythonAnywhere.