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Create django.config

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•We have chosen AWS as our hosting provider, and Elastic Beanstalk as a service to deploy the Django project, and it has some specific requirements.
•It requires that you create a folder on the root level of your project called .
•In the .

Provider-Specific Settings

We have chosen AWS as our hosting provider, and Elastic Beanstalk as a service to deploy the Django project, and it has some specific requirements.

.ebextension Folder

It requires that you create a folder on the root level of your project called .ebextensions:

python

my_tennis_club
    .ebextensions/
    members/
    my_tennis_club/
    mystaticfiles/
    productionfiles/
    db.sqlite3
    manage.py
    requirements.txt

Create django.config File

In the .ebextensions folder, create a file called django.config:

python

my_tennis_club
    .ebextensions/
        django.config

Open the file and insert these settings:

Note: Note: These steps are specific for AWS and Elastic beanstalk, but every provider has some provider-specific settings.

The next step is to wrap all the dependencies into one .zip file, which you will learn in the next chapter.

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