Local Development | Divio Help & Support

Database is uninitialized and superuser password is not specified.

Resolving a breaking change in the Postgres container image.

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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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How to set up the local development environment with the Divio App

Written by Daniele Procida
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Auto-sync

Written by Daniele Procida
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Setup

How to install custom system applications

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

Written by Joseph Melettukunnel
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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How to enable PostGIS/GeoDjango in your project

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

Written by Daniele Procida
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How to log in to Wagtail when developing locally

Wagtail has a special arrangement for its Django admin access.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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Set up the local development environment (Linux)

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

Written by Daniele Procida
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Set up your SSH keys

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

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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How to use the Divio CLI or Divio App with an HTTP Proxy Server

Written by Christian Bertschy
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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

Written by Daniele Procida
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Addon configuration for developers

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

Written by Daniele Procida
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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

Written by Daniele Procida
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Divio CLI reference

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

Written by Daniele Procida
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Common Docker command-line operations

Written by Daniele Procida
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Installing Addons and redeploying locally

A guide to speeding up the local installation/deployment cycle

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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How to run the local server in live configuration

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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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

Written by Daniele Procida
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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

Written by Daniele Procida
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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.

Written by Daniele Procida
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Docker Toolbox and VirtualBox issues

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

Written by Daniele Procida
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Docker issues

Dealing with Docker-specific issues

Written by Daniele Procida
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Local project has problems connecting to its database

Sometimes, a local project may fail to start up.

Written by Daniele Procida
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How it works

Explanation of the Divio Cloud architecture and workflow

Divio's architecture is based on Docker.

Written by Daniele Procida
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Essential knowledge: Addons' templates in Divio Cloud projects

How Divio Cloud projects handle templates belonging to addons

Written by Daniele Procida
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