Deploying Your Django App on Azure

Prerequisites

• Have an active Microsoft Azure account with webapp access
• Have your django code already up on github

Before we start

1. Download and extract this zip file and add the contents (ptvs_virtualenv_proxy.py, runtime.txt, requirements.txt, web.config ) to your root project folder (same level as manage.py)
2. Add those files to your git repo and push it up to github

Deploying!

• Visit https://portal.azure.com/

1. Click on + New
2. Click on Web + Mobile

3. Click on Web App

4. Change your app name to something you want. The URL will be whatyouchoose.azurewebsites.net and add the same name for the New Resource Group Name

5. Click on App Service and click on + Create New in the next tab
6. Add an App Service Plan name. I suggest east-asia
7. Click on Location and choose East Asia
8. Click on OK

9. Click on Pin to dashboard and then click Create and wait :)

10. After the app has been created, type in github in the settings search bar

11. Click on Deployment Source
12. Click on Choose Source and choose Github
13. Click on Authorization

14. Click on Authorize and click Approve

    

15. Click on Choose Project

16. Click on your Django Girls blog project on the right side

17. Click on OK.

    

18. Wait for your project to build. It will take a few minutes. Take a break!

19. Click on the Microsoft Azure logo to go back to the dashboard

20. Click on your newly created app.

21. Click on Tools

22. Click on Kudu

23. Click on Go -> and it will open a new tab/window.

24. Click on Debug Console

25. Click on PowerShell

26. Within the console, type in cd site\wwwroot

27. Then type in env\Scripts\python manage.py migrate and then wait for the migration to finish
28. To create the superuser on the site, Type in env\Scripts\python manage.py shell
29. After Python 3.4.3 ... appears, press enter on your keyboard
30. Type in from django.contrib.auth.models import User and press enter
31. Type in User.objects.create_superuser('USERNAME', 'EMAILADDRESS', 'PASSWORD') MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE USERNAME, EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD. And press enter

32. Type in exit() and press enter. Go back to the previous tab/window where the Azure Dashboard is

33. Click on the URL and visit your new site LIVE on the internet!