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Divio App

How to use the Divio App

Run Divio Cloud projects locally in our Docker environment, manage your Cloud projects, upload and download code and configuration changes.

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How to set up the local development environment with the Divio App

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Auto-sync

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Setup

How to install custom system applications

Learn how to install Linux system libraries in your Divio Cloud projects

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How to login to Divio Cloud projects

The Aldryn Single-Sign-On mechanism makes it easy to log in to your local projects.

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How to enable PostGIS/GeoDjango in your project

PostGIS and GeoDjango offer some very useful geolocation functionality for your projects.

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How to log in to Wagtail when developing locally

Wagtail has a special arrangement for its Django admin access.

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Divio Cloud's SSH key fingerprint

Divio Cloud's public key helps your system validate its connection to our Cloud servers.

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Essential knowledge: using Git to manage your Divio Cloud project

Your Divio Cloud project is a Git repository, offering several advantages to the developer.

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Set up the local development environment (Macintosh and Windows)

Let the Divio App do all the hard work of setting up your local Docker development environment.

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Set up the local development environment (Linux)

The Divio App will help you manage and develop your projects.

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Set up your SSH keys

In order to set up secure communication between your local machine and Divio Cloud, you need to use SSH keys.

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Set up and launch a Divio Cloud project locally

For the best possible development experience, you can do all of your work locally, in the Divio local development environment.

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Set up local development environment with PyCharm

PyCharm provides an interactive console that can integrate into your local Divio development environment.

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Set up the local development environment with PyCharm and Docker for Mac/Docker for Windows

PyCharm provides an interactive console that can integrate into your local Divio development environment.

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How to use the Divio CLI or Divio App with an HTTP Proxy Server

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Divio Shell

Adding a new application to your Divio Cloud project - the quick and easy way

How to create a new addon application, integrate it locally, and deploy it to the cloud.

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How to develop a Divio Cloud Addon application

Create usable packages that can be deployed in multiple projects via the Control Panel, and shared on the Marketplace and with other users.

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How to interact with your project's database

Running Postgres commands to dump, restore and perform other operations on your local database

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Addon configuration for developers

How to provide additional or user-supplied configuration for Addon applications

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Essential knowledge: working with media files on the Divio Cloud

How to work with file storage in the Divio Cloud architecture

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Divio CLI reference

The Divio CLI allows you to interact with your local project and the Divio Cloud infrastructure.

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Common Docker command-line operations

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Installing Addons and redeploying locally

A guide to speeding up the local installation/deployment cycle

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How to clone a Divio Cloud Project

Each Divio Cloud project is a Git repository, meaning you can clone it to another system at any time.

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Managing Divio Cloud projects using standard tools

The Divio App uses familiar tools including Git and SSH; if you prefer you can use them directly.

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How to run the local server in live configuration

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Docker

Essential knowledge: What is Docker?

Docker is an open source tool to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardised unit for software development.

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Managing disk space in your Docker VM

The Docker Virtual Machine on your computer runs all the containers of all your projects; if you have many, it can run out of space.

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How to add Python/Django applications and dependencies to a Divio Cloud project

It's easy to add new dependencies and packages to a Divio Cloud project.

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Accessing the Postgres database in the Divio Shell

How to use a localPostgres client to access the database running in its Docker container

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How to use a directory outside C:\Users with Docker Toolbox/Docker for Windows

On Windows, there are some restrictions on the location of your workspace folder - here is how to work around them

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Troubleshooting

Before you start troubleshooting

Many problems can be resolved simply by making sure that your system is up-to-date and configured correctly.

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Docker Toolbox and VirtualBox issues

Improve your local development experience with the new version of the Divio App.

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Docker issues

Dealing with Docker-specific issues

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Local project has problems connecting to its database

Sometimes, a local project may fail to start up.

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How it works

Explanation of the Divio Cloud architecture and workflow

Divio's architecture is based on Docker.

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Essential knowledge: Addons' templates in Divio Cloud projects

How Divio Cloud projects handle templates belonging to addons

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