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#HEROKU POSTGRES APP HOW TO#
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In my early days building and hosting django projects on heroku, i really spent several hours reading online how to host a django project with postgres on heroku because there was no detailed article on how to do that. If you do not already have an account with heroku, you can simply sign up now by going to, it is entirely free to register and start using their services right away.ĭeploying a Django Web Application on heroku is usually a difficult task to carry out as a beginner especially when your Django application has a backend and you want to use the heroku postgres as your cloud database. To be provided as a service not just the hardware, but also the platform that seperates the hardware itself and allows you to enjoy the features that allow you to easilly carry out automatic balancing, deployment management and lots more. Fill in the URL for connection in the following format using the values from DATABASE_URL that you got from Heroku and credentials in respective fields as shown below.Heroku is the Platform as a Service (PaaS) platform that allows web developers to develop, create, run and manage their web applications completely on the cloud.Create new connection, give any name to it, choose DataDirect PostgreSQL(.PostgreSQLDriver) as your driver. You should be back on the Connect window.Give the name as ‘DataDirect PostgreSQL’ and browse the path to postgresql.jar which will be in lib folder of installed directory as shown below.

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Add a new driver by clicking on the new button.On the bottom left of that window you will find a button named ‘Manage Drivers’. Open SQL Workbench and go to File -> Connect Window, which will open a new window.To configure and connect to PostgreSQL on Heroku using the DataDirect JDBC driver, we will be using SQL Workbench.Once the package is downloaded, unzip the package and run the setup.exe.You should be able to connect to PostgreSQL on Heroku successfully.

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Fill in the Username and password that you got from Heroku and click on OK.

Click on Test Connect, you should see a new prompt for credentials.

This is likely acceptable for test environments, but it is highly recommended that a server certificate issued by a recognized certificate authority be used in production environments. NOTE : Disabling server certificate validation opens a serious security hole by allowing man in the middle attacks. Go to Security Tab, select Encryption Method as 1-SSL and uncheck Validate Server Certificate as shown below.On the Configuration form, Under General tab fill in the Host Name, Port and Database that you got from Heroku configuration value for DATABASE_URL as shown below.Under User DSN tab, click on Add and choose DataDirect 7.1 PostgreSQL Wire Protocol as your driver as shown below.Open ODBC Administrator (32 bit) if you have installed 32-bit driver or ODBC Administrator (64 bit) if you have installed 64-bit driver installed.

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Most of the time the default settings would be sufficient to install the driver successfully. The installation process will be simple, just follow the instructions.Once the package is downloaded, unzip the package and run the Setup.exe.

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Download PostgreSQL ODBC driver from here.

This is just a way for making it easy for users that are trying it out for the first time. It will be in the format Note that this is not a recommended way of getting the database URL, if you want to use this in your application development, you should use the Heroku CLI for that.

You should now see the list of configuration variables and copy the value of the key DATABASE_URL.

Go to the Heroku application that you intend to connect to, click on the settings tab and in Config Variables section, and click on the button Reveal Config Vars as shown in the below screenshot.

If you don’t have the Heroku CLI installed, no worries, you can still get your connection info by logging in to your Heroku Dashboard.

When you run the above command, you will get your database URL in the following Heroku Dashboard.

If you have Heroku CLI installed on your machine, then open your terminal/command prompt and run the following command.

You can get your Database URL using either Heroku CLI or from your Heroku dashboard.