Question

So I’m following the getting started guide from heroku with django. However when I run this command:

heroku run python manage.py syncdb

I get this error

psycopg2.OperationalError: could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

I assumed this meant that the db wasn’t set up yet… so I manually added the shared_db option as well:

heroku addons:add shared-database:5mb

But.. I still get the same error. What gives?

Answer 1

My app structure was off… heroku wants the structure to look like this:

toplevel
  requirements.txt
  myapp
    manage.py
    all other django stuff