Siftie Snippets

Running locally

• Clone the repo.
• cd snippets
• python3 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/snippets
• source ~/.virtualenvs/snippets/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• brew install postgresql
• brew services start postgresql
• createuser snippets
• createdb snippets --owner=snippets
• cp settings_local.py-template settings_local.py // modify if necessary
• brew install elasticsearch
• brew services start elasticsearch
• curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/haystack?pretty"
• python manage.py update_index // optional if you have a local DB dump with snippets
• make run

Deploying on Dokku

• dokku apps:create snippets
• dokku postgres:create snippets
• dokku postgres:link snippets snippets
• scp snipt.dump nsergeant@server.nicksergeant.com:/home/nsergeant
• dokku postgres:connect snippets < snipt.dump
• dokku domains:add snippets snippets.siftie.com
• dokku config:set DOKKU_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=team@siftie.com SECRET_KEY=<some-secret-key> USE_SSL=true
• git remote add dokku dokku@server.nicksergeant.com:snippets
• git push dokku
• Elasticsearch 2.x only!

Automatic deploy to Heroku

You can click the button below to automatically deploy Siftie Snippets to Heroku.

Manual deploy to Heroku

• Clone the repo.
• heroku create
• heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
• heroku addons:add searchbox
• heroku config:add SECRET_KEY=<some-secret-key>
• git push heroku
• heroku run python manage.py migrate
• heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser
• Visit yourapp.herokuapp.com and login with the user you just created.

Updating your Heroku instance after an automatic deploy

• git clone https://github.com/siftie/snippets
• cd snippets
• git checkout heroku
• heroku git:remote -a <your-instance-name>
• git push heroku heroku:master

Options

If you want email support (for password resets, server errors, etc):

• heroku addons:create postmark:10k
• heroku run addons:open postmark -> use an email you control and confirm it
• heroku config:add POSTMARK_EMAIL=<email_from_above>

If you want to disable user-facing signup:

• heroku config:set DISABLE_SIGNUP=true

If you want to enable Django's DEBUG mode:

• heroku config:add DEBUG=true

If you want to enable SSL on a custom domain after you've configured your Heroku SSL cert:

• heroku config:add USE_SSL=true