Django create superuser but render shell not available on free plan

#1

Hello,
I have successfully deployed my Django app by following the Manual Deployment tutorial. The last step is to create a new superuser by running the command in the render shell but I am not able to access the render shell unless I upgrade to a paid plan. Is there workaround for this issue?

Also the app is raising a new error:

ProgrammingError at /admin/login/

relation "accounts_customuser" does not exist
LINE 1: ..."."date_joined", "accounts_customuser"."age" FROM "accounts_...

so I would like to know if and how I can view the source code for the current app build in the render dashboard?

Thank you to all

#2

Hi,

This has come up before on the forum, e.g. https://community.render.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-django-admin-account-with-free-plan/6972

You can add the command to your Build Command and make it run without input by setting some environment variables, covered in the article from the other post: https://vuyisile.com/how-to-automate-creating-a-django-super-user/ Once run once you can remove the superuser command from your build command.

If you want to see a built instance filesystem you would need a paid plan to have Shell access.

Alan