Question

Seems like a fairly simple problem, but can’t seem to figure it out. I’ve been following Heroku’s Django instructions (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django#using-a-different-wsgi-server)

I’m trying to create a Procfile, run it locally with Foreman start. I’ve downloaded and installed Gunicorn and Gevent already, manually added a .txt file called Procfile in my root (let me know if there’s a better way to do this then adding new text file and naming it Procfile), but Foreman start keeps returning

 (venv)c:\users\chris\hellodjango>foreman start    
 ERROR: Procfile does not exist.

Here is my directory:

hellodjango/
.gitignore
manage.py
requirements.txt
Procfile.txt
hellodjango/
    __init__.py
    __init__.pyc
    settings.py
    settings.pyc
    urls.py
    urls.pyc
    wsgi.py
    wsgi.pyc
venv/
    Include/
    Lib/
    Scripts/ 

My requirements.txt contents are

Django==1.4.2
distribute==0.6.28
dj-database-url==0.2.1
psycopg2==2.4.5
wsgiref==0.1.2
gunicorn==0.15.0

And my Procfile.txt contents are

web: gunicorn hellodjango.wsgi -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT

What am I missing and why can’t my app find ProcFile?

Answer 1

The Procfile should not have a ‘.txt’ extension. You have called it ‘Procfile.txt’. Should be just ‘Procfile’.