Deploying a Wagtail site to Python Anywhere via GitHub | "learning by teaching"

This video highlights to process of making a Wagtail site locally, pushing the code to a repository on GitHub and then being deployed on Python Anywhere (free account).

Wagtail CMS (https://wagtail.io/)is built on the Django framework (which itself is written in Python). I personally love using Python so always gravitate towards Django-based solutions for web applications, and I am very much enjoying my first week (!) of learning to use Wagtail!

In this video I wanted to show how you can deploy a Wagtail site to Python Anywhere's free account as I personally couldn't find any specific resources for this. This is understandable as essentially it's just the same as deploying any Django project to any appropriately equiped server, but as I was going through the process I ran into various small issues which, whilst all easily resolvable with some slightly-above-my-current-level understanding, I felt would be good to highlight for others whilst also solidifying the ideas for myself personally.

I would like to thank the Wagtail slack channel members for their invaluable time and support while I was learning how to do this, in particular:
Cynthia Kiser
Matt Westcott
Tom Dyson
Jacob Topp-Mugglestone

Wagtail is made by Torchbox: https://torchbox.com/

# CONTENTS

00:00 Intro
01:58 Definitions and prerequisites
09:24 Process Overview
12:20 Coding - local

20:26 GitHub
20:55 Deployment - Python Anywhere

29:44 Live site!
30:07 Recap/post-cap/outro/underview?


# LEARNING BY TEACHING
I learned how to do this less than 24 hours ago so if you're watching this with advice on best practice/telling me I'm just flat-out wrong then please let me know so I can learn! The purpose of this video is primarily for me to improve my own understanding whilst helping others, whilst giving something back to wonderful Wagtail community!

# PREREQUISITES
Knowledge:
- Python
- Django
- Bash

Accounts:
- GitHub (free)
- Python Anywhere (free)
- Slack (free, just for support!)

Locally installed:
- Code editor (i.e. VSCode)
- Python 3
- virtualenvwrapper
- Git/GitHub extension


# LINKS
Live site: https://jacksorjacksor.eu.pythonanywhere.com/

Wagtail: https://wagtail.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/
Python Anywhere: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/
Python Anywhere (EU): https://eu.pythonanywhere.com/
Wagtail Slack channel: https://wagtail.io/slack/
Python: https://www.python.org/
Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
Django Password Generator: https://djecrety.ir/
Learn Wagtail from Scratch: https://learnwagtail.com/

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