Heroku Deployment Error 503 for Django Blog App

Using Django
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I am trying to deploy my django app on heroku and yet i keep get a 503 error, my log errors:

2020-01-10T19:59:23.904041+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc=“App crashed” method=GET path=“/” host=django-blogapp.herokuapp.com request_id=4b76e716-46cf-40c7-975c-b8626285da19 fwd=“207.23.170.92” dyno= connect= service= status=503 bytes= protocol=https 2020-01-10T19:59:24.611790+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc=“App crashed” method=GET path=“/favicon.ico” host=django-blogapp.herokuapp.com request_id=1669e416-0224-4b8d-a14a-bff26314ca63 fwd=“207.23.170.92” dyno= connect= service= status=503 bytes= protocol=https

I have migrated my code using heroku run python3 manage.py migrate, and it worked properly

This is what my settings.py file contains:

Blockquote

"""
Django settings for django_project project.

Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 3.0.2.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/
"""

import os
import django_heroku

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))


# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['https://django-blogapp.herokuapp.com/']


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'blog.apps.BlogConfig',
'users.apps.UsersConfig',
'crispy_forms',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

 MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
 ]

 ROOT_URLCONF = 'django_project.urls'

 TEMPLATES = [
 {
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ],
    },
  },
 ]

 WSGI_APPLICATION = 'django_project.wsgi.application'


 # Database
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/#databases

  DATABASES = {
    'default': {
     'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
     'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
     }


   # Password validation
   # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

    AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
    'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
     },
     {
    'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
     },
     {
    'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
     },
     {
    'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
     },
    ]


    # Internationalization
    # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/i18n/

    LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

    TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

    USE_I18N = True 

    USE_L10N = True

    USE_TZ = True


    # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
    # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/static-files/

    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
    STATIC_URL = '/static/'

    MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') #where the uploaded files will be located 
    on the system
    #create profile_pics directory within the media directory and puts the image there, 
     media directory is located in the base directory
    MEDIA_URL = '/media/' #where the web page will have to look for the photos

    CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap4'

   LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'blog-home'

   LOGIN_URL = 'login'

   EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
   EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
   EMAIL_PORT = 587
   EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
   EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
   EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD') 
   ##################################################################################
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = os.environ.get('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_')
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = os.environ.get('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
  AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = os.environ.get('AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME')
  AWS_S3_REGION_NAME = 'ca-central-1'


      #############################################################################


       #tell django-storages the domain to use to refer to static files:
     AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = '%s.s3.amazonaws.com' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME


    #AWS_LOCATION = 'static'

     AWS_S3_FILE_OVERWRITE = False
     AWS_DEFAULT_ACL = None

     # Tell the staticfiles app to use S3Boto3 storage when writing the collected static 
     files (when
      # you run `collectstatic`).
      DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage' 

       #Activate Django-Heroku
        django_heroku.settings(locals())
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@Ritvikshah2000 any updates? even i am getting the same error.

3

Can Anyone please help ?? . Even I am getting the same error

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did you check your Procfile?
it should be of the form:
web: gunicorn PROJECT_NAME.wsgi

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this solved my problem. thank you