An example of how to set your Django application up to enable deployment on Kinsta App Hosting services.

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Django is a Python-based web framework, so during the build process Kinsta will automatically install dependencies defined in your requirements.txt file.

The python manage.py collectstatic command will also be executed at every build to collect all static files to the directory defined in STATIC_ROOT.

Note that the SECRET_KEY should not be stored in your repository, but rather set up in an environment variable. Set a random string in your newly created app's Settings > Environment variables section and make it available as both build and runtime variables. Finally, redeploy your application on the Deployments page to make the changes effective.

When deploying an application Kinsta will automatically create a processes based on the Procfile in the root of the repository. Make sure to use this command to run your server:

web: gunicorn helloworld.wsgi