Deploy Django App to Railway in 5 Minutes 

You're very much welcomed brother, I'm happy to help ❤️

@@desphixs Great vid!!!

Bro, it's so easy to deploy project, I'm wowed, they are the best I've seen so far

Happy to help ❤️

Thanks alot pal, I'm happy to help 👍🏻❤️

Glad it helped! ;)

me too. the static files did not work

same as to u. plase help us @desphixs

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@@desphixs çok teşekkürler, tamamdır 🙏

You're welcome!

You're welcome, I'm happy to help ❤️

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad I could help.

thanks alot for the comment

It depend on the platform you want to use, if you want to use AWS then yes, you can deploy the both on the same platform. Deploy Django on EC2 and react AWS Amplify

@@desphixsare there any free options like railway? if im not wrong AWS will require some cost? could you make a video on this one day sir, would be much appreciated

thanks alot buddy, really means alot

Let start by checking if you have gunicorn in your requirements.txt file. Do you?? Another thing that might cause that migration error, is deleting your migration folder or Messing with it before deploying? If that's the case clone your project onto your local PC and try running it after making migration and migrate. One more question. Did you site get deployed, like: can you visit your site now using a domain name?? Before seeing the migration error??

Yes, it will still maintain the CRUD functionality after deployment, but to preserve your database permanently, you will need to provision a live database

When do you get this error? While trying to access the site? you need to check your deployment log to pinpoint the error

My appologies for late reply, if you have not fixed this yet then let's debug it together. 1. For the url link you are talking about, {% url 'name_of_url' %} NOTE: name of url is the path(..., name="name_of_url") 2. Have you run the command *python **manage.py** collectstatic* 3. Are your static root and static url configured in settings.py and project's urls.py Let me know if there is another issue okay?

You need to host your static and media files somewhere else, that's a must or else whenever you re-deploy your site, all your media files (dynamic images and files) would get deleted again.

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Check your deploy and build logs the error should be there

20 days approximately.

You need to run collect static command before pushing to GitHub and make sure you static url, dirs and root are configured well in the settings.py

Hello there, I'm finding it difficult to understand what you meant, do you mean, can you upload media files after deploying to railway?

@@desphixs exactly

Yes you can type it manually

No they don't, it's remain active. But when your 500 free hour runs out, your site get disabled, you won't be able to access it again, till the next month when the 500hr get refilled again. But you can remove that limitations by verifying you account using your credit card, just make sure that: if the app you're hosting isn't that important or it's just for testing then make sure to disable it yourself or you'd run out of 500 hrs Dyno to host other apps or view hosted app till the next month.

Hello there, I can't see really debug the error if I can't see the full traceback or error log. Share it using pastebin or GitHub gist.

The line of code in your procfile is it correct? Error seems to be coming from there.

@@desphixs web: gunicorn projeto_open_top.wsgi --log-file-

@@desphixs look, please. Thanks

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Railway have this add variable feature, all you need to do is add your variable there e.g there would be two boxes add SECRET_KEY in the first box, then the one beside it add your secret_key_value as easy as that, you can add multiple

Your GitHub account need to be at least 3 months old

A couple of things can be causing this error, can you paste your full build log here.

Yes it does, but it gets cleared after some time

@@desphixs thank you! Do I need to pay to prevent it from being cleared?

it's very easy to connect MySQL, just create and configure the mysql in your django project, then create an instance or database for MySQL in Railway.

If you have stored your API key as an environment variable in a repository on GitHub, it is important to note that environment variables stored in a GitHub repository are not secure. When you push changes to a public GitHub repository, including environment variables, they can be accessed by anyone who has access to the repository or by automated tools that scan for exposed credentials. When you host your application on Railway, the environment variables set in your GitHub repository will not be automatically accessible to your Railway-hosted application. Railway has its own system for managing environment variables, which is separate from the GitHub repository. To securely manage your API key on Railway, you should use the environment variable management feature provided by Railway. This allows you to set environment variables specific to your Railway project and ensures that they are securely stored and accessible only within your Railway deployment. Here's how you can manage environment variables on Railway: Go to your Railway project dashboard. Select your project. Navigate to the "Settings" tab. Look for the "Environment Variables" section. Add your API key as a new environment variable. By managing your environment variables directly within Railway, you can ensure that your API key remains secure and is not exposed in your GitHub repository, I hope this helps.

@@desphixs i can’t seem to be able to successfully open a railway account, i keep being told that I don’t have enough information of me on GitHub and they are trying to make me subscribe to the team package instead

Have you fixed this yet?? A couple of thing might be wrong and if I can't see your code I can't really debug, seems the error is even from railway and not your code. Is it working yet?

@@desphixs Still not working :(

Thanks alot

Hola amigo, mis más sinceras disculpas por la respuesta tardía. Sí, por supuesto, hay alternativas a heroku, puede utilizar el ferrocarril, su plataforma de alojamiento es mucho más fácil de usar que heroku. railway.app

Hi there, I'll be helping answer your question today. When you deploy your website to a live server in our case railway, and a user makes a post on the live website, the post data that the user just created does not get saved in your repository and that is because GitHub is not a database system, when you deploy to railway, a "unique & free" database is assigned to your website and all new posts or comments will be saved on that database, now let's say on your live server you have gotten 35 new posts but on your local development server you have only two posts, if you make some changes to your code, push to GitHub, then deploy to railway, remember that "unique & free" database that was assigned to you? It gets deleted and a new database is assigned to the new deployment you just did. To prevent this and always preserve your new data (posts, comment e.t.c) then you need to provision a live database e.g postgresql, connect it to your project and re-deploy. Now you'd notice that, when there is a new post or comment from users, and you make changes to your website and re-deploy, those data does not get deleted again. That's because the new database that you created is no longer for testing purposes, rather for a real website. GitHub is only used for keeping track of your code, it's like a house holding your code and serving it to railway, then railway is reading the codes there and displaying the appropriate pages and functions e.t.c There is still a lot more on this topic and I'll look into make a full comprehensive tutorial explaining the process of deployment in-depthly

@@desphixs I see, Thank you very much! Can I somehow download that unique & free database that was assigned to me so that I can manually push it to github?

@@huzaifafaheem6382 yes you can, but you cannot just directly download the whole db, there is a way to do it, buts it's tricky. The best way I'd recommend is to use django_import_export package, export all the model objects (posts or comments) from the live server, import it in the local server then re-deploy again, now those files would stay there permanently.

send me your project link if possible, i cannot really tell what is going on. You can also check the error and build log, copy it, paste it in pastebin.com/ and send me the error and build log, so i can debug the issue.

@@desphixs bro it's ur instagram clone project .. But I made small changes in it.. for example, I changed the registration page and the login page, and made some changes in the frontend.. How can I give you the link? Can I give the link to the project in GitHub? Sorry about my english bro btw😅

No, it doesn't

@@desphixs thx for replying... do you any host that support Websocket connection?

Have you checked your build logs??

@@desphixs yes i have timeout, and my staticfiles dont load, and the website is laggy

@@valentinfigueiredo but the website is opening up in the browser right, it's just that it's laggy?? Did you delete your media files before hosting?? To show your static files you need to run the collectstatic command and it's highly recommended that you use an external platform like aws s3 or azure to host your static and media files. Tell me if there is still any problem??

@@desphixs yes I did it in the .gitignore. No I don’t use external platform for the staticfiles , is it very usefull?

It's up to you mate, if you can afford to start using aws then go for it, else remain with railway's option

Thanks. You could host your database on AWS and then add the DB url to Railway busing dj_database_url, i also think that railway hosts databases.

@@desphixs thanks, actually I just installed a pg database but I can't deploy psycopg or mysql dependences to my proyect

Fingers crossed! I can help if you need that...

The error is Improperly Configured. I have tried a lot of fixes but not the right one yet :)

Thanks. The database would read and write operation as it usually happens in the development environment, but the database would get deleted after a day I think, or after your free 500hr runs out, provisioning a postgresl and connecting it is easy, I can make a tutorial if you'd watch it.

@@desphixs I will definitely watch it! It is much needed so would love it if you can make a video on it.

Thanks buddy! To better understand your question, do you mean, can deploy your web app using railway, if you an integrated payment gateway? Please what’s an integrated payment gateway? Is it like a payment method?

@@desphixs Sorry, If i sound wrong, actually Im a beginner and trying to understand the process. My query is suppose I have integrated Stripe as payment method then can I deploy it in 'railway ' ? If it is , then will there be any need of customization to do that?

@supreme4256 Yes, if you have it integrated stripe as a payment method you can deploy your railway. Here is a breakdown of the process 1. Create a stripe account 2. Verify your stripe account by linked a credit or debit card 3. Choose a plan, maybe the 5$ plan 4. Then follow the steps in the video to deploy your app

@@desphixs Once again I must admit that I have never seen a Mentor/RU-vidr as dedicated as you in terms of supporting followers. God bless you and may keep you in good health to deliver us more knowledge. Thank you.

Have you checked your build logs?? Copy and paste the build log here, so I can see what's wrong. The error should be there.

@@desphixs The build logs is too large, so i pasted it on Google Docs docs.google.com/document/d/1qSoYA1T8sdU9mPqCo0P57iWqU6LwQ1SJKZfin0Ts_yE/edit?usp=sharing

Can you also add the deploy logs, I want to see the both. I'm sorry, I could have told you all that at once 🙏🏿

@@desphixs Yes, for sure! Just added!

I'm having the same error! Did this get solved?

You're very much welcomed ❤️

Did you add the csrf_token in your form?? Or csrf_exempt in your view?

@@desphixs yes i have added csrf token in forms,,,i didn't use csrf exempt in any view,,

So after adding the csrf_token did the error persist?? If yes checkout this thread. It should give you some clue forum.djangoproject.com/t/deploy-a-django-project-on-railway-how-to-fix-the-csrf-verification-failed/16832

@@desphixs i have also added csrf trusted origin

Then there is an issue with the deploy, you need to check your deployment logs, you can copy and paste it here if you need assistance detecting the error

You're welcome ❤️

I would like to understand what you mean by start command??

It's better you use the inbuilt railway inbuilt variable config system, it's way easier and better i'd say.

@@desphixs I tried it. It worked perfectly fine. Thank you

You need to generate a new custom domain from the settings

Can someone advise me on this it's giving Error 403 after launching the Website

So which one is the current problem now?? 1. The admin issue 2. Or the 403 Error

@@desphixs Website opens perfectly but when I want to go to admin panel it asks for username and password when I type out them error 403 pops up

@@MaxWalker676 same here, when i try to log into admin panel I have this error " Forbidden (403) CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.", tied to add CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS, but it didn't fix the problem, maybe someone know how to fix this issue?

never mind i already sorted it out🙂

Great job you've done ❤️🙂

You're welcome

Did you run collectstatic before pushing to GitHub?? Also I'd recommend to add whitenoise your middleware section in settings.py

@@desphixs I run collectstatic and all the staticfiles are ready in the github repo.

@@desphixs , let me call you the best. Everything is ok now after adding the whitenoise to the middleware.

Never mind, I fixed it😌

Okay man, if there are any more issues, I'm always here!

What’s the deployment error?

@@desphixs it kept crashing

@@desphixs /bin/bash: line 1: py: command not found

You need download railway CLI. Login in this CLI and just run 'railway run ' for create super user you need 'railway run python manage.py createsuperuser'. You can see every command in docs for railway CLI

Thanks alot for answering his question.

Along side Андрей Челла's comment you can please make reference to the docs here docs.railway.app/develop/cli

@@desphixs Hi, please I installed the railway CLI but when I link my project and run "railway run python manage.py createsuperuser", it returns an error saying "python: can't open file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory exit status 2". Any help would be appreciated.

Do you have csrf_token in your form or csrf_exempt decorator in you view

@@desphixs yes I have csrf_token in my project

My apologies for late reply. If you're still having the error, the checkout this thread, it should give you some clue forum.djangoproject.com/t/deploy-a-django-project-on-railway-how-to-fix-the-csrf-verification-failed/16832

Okay I'd help if I can What's it?

@@desphixs I need your help in migrating my site to railways

@@desphixs my system doesn't support pip update installation I need you to help me out if possible?

Alright buddy, I'll try to stop it. But I'm used to it already you know, but I'll try to.😅 Thanks alot for your comment, I really appreciate it ❤️

If your deployment is paused then there might be an issue you can always restart your deployment

@@desphixs railway paused deployments, I wasn’t even able to connect my repo. After that was over I still wasn’t able to deploy due to my account not meeting their “criteria”.