This post is intended to help those learning Python. It will help you deploy your new app to the web so you can test and share it with others. Heroku’s own instructions leave out a couple of steps for beginners and so this article gives you everything to get up and running.

Prerequisites:
- Git, if you need help with this, check out my other article here.
- Sign up for a Heroku account.
- Python version > 3.6 installed on your machine.
- Pipenv installed: $ pip install pipenv.

Heroku CLI:
Install the Heroku CLI(command line interface) so that you…

First off, let’s ensure git is installed — if not, check the relevant link below for your system:

• MacOS here
• Windows here
• Linux here here

For the purposes of this post, I will be following a flow that you would most likely use for a new repository, although some steps will be used for existing ones.

Also, for other commands — for example when making a new directory, I will be using BASH shell commands. Here is a handy reference for those.

Create a new repository:

First of let’s make a new directory in which to keep our repository:

mkdir newRepo

Now will move…

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NOTE: This is a complete, all-in-one version of this series, hence its length.

Let’s break the task into 5 smaller pieces:

1. Create a server ← You are here !

2. Setup the server.

3. Install the LAMP stack.

4. Setup a domain name (for example www.myDomain.com).

5. Getting files on the server.

Why ?

For me, the decision to set up my own web server boiled down to three reasons:
1. Price:

• As you will see, paying for a VPS (virtual private…

This is part 5 in “How to set up your own cloud based web server”

1. Create a server.

2. Setup the server.

3. Install the LAMP stack.

4 .Setup a domain name (i.e. www.myDomain.com).

5. Getting files on the server ← You are here !

Wow, we are on the home stretch now. At this point we have the knowledge to be able to create a server , setup the server, install the LAMP stack and setup a domain name .

The last piece of the puzzle is how we do we actually get them onto our web server. We…

This is part 4 in “How to set up your own cloud based web server”

1. Create a server.

2. Setup the server.

3. Install the LAMP stack.

4. Setup a domain name (i.e. www.myDomain.com) ← You are here !

5. Getting files on the server.

At this point we are nearly finished this series. So far, we have learned how to create a server , setup the server and install the LAMP stack .

We now have a website that responds to our public IP for the server.
However, what we need to do is connect a domain name i.e. www.myDomain.com…

This is part 3 in “How to set up your own cloud based web server”

1. Create a server.

2. Setup the server.

3. Install the LAMP stack ← You are here !

4. Setup a domain name (i.e. www.myDomain.com).

5. Getting files on the server.

OK, so far we are making great progress. We have created a server and completed some basic setup tasks.
Now, how is the server going to know what to do with our code files- HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc once we upload them ? …

This is part 2 in “How to set up your own cloud based web server”

1. Create a server.

2. Setup the server ← You are here !

3. Install the LAMP stack.

4. Setup a domain name (i.e. www.myDomain.com).

5. Getting files on the server.

So, now that you have created your server or droplet on DigitalOcean — lets go ahead and go through some basic setup steps in preparation for launching our website for the first time !

After we created our droplet in step 1 above, we would have received some credentials via email which would have included…

For when you want to make everything you learn on Free Code Camp visible to the big bad world !

This is part 1 in “How to set up your own cloud based web server”

Let’s break the task into 5 smaller pieces:

1. Create a server ← You are here !

2. Setup the server.

3. Install the LAMP stack.

4. Setup a domain name (i.e. www.myDomain.com).

5. Getting files on the server.

Why ?

For me, the decision to set up my own web server boiled down to three reasons:
1. Price:

• As we will see, paying for a VPS (virtual…