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<p>Posted on Sun 19 April 2015 in <a href="http://www.emadmokhtar.com/category/django.html">Django</a> <b>Read in 2 min.</b></p>
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<p>If you developed Django application and want to deploy/publish it to the web you can check this list of Django friendly (http://djangofriendly.com/hosts/), but if you want a free hosting you can use <a href="https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/">Python Anywhere free hosting</a>, I’m using it for <a href="http://www.emadmokhtar.com/my-first-django-app.html">my Django app</a> and I’m very comfortable with but before using the free hosting please consider the following:</p>
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<li>They provide only MySQL for free hosting, so if you developed your app using PostgreSQL or SQLite, please download the correct driver.</li>
<li>Application URL must be sub-domain of pythonanywhere.com, example my-app.pythonanywhere.com</li>
<li>I’ll host one application only.</li>
<li>No full access to a machine, you’ll deploy your application using console, use the console to install your virtual environment and packages, and edit some code using their in-browser code editor.</li>
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<li>Go to Files tab and open settings.py file and configure your MySQL database.</li>
<li>Now all your application configuration is done and now you can configure the application to start working.</li>
<li>Go to Web tab, open WSGI configuration file, and follow the comments in the file or keep going with this tutorial to configure Django App. </li>
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