heroku-static-site

Simple starter for deploying static website on Heroku cloud application platform.

How to use it

Preparation

1. Follow the first 3 steps on Heroku quick start to get heroku toolbelt and create account.
2. Clone this project in your machine: $ git clone https://bitbucket.org/mikus/heroku-static-site.git.
3. Go into created project directory: $ cd heroku-static-site.
4. Create project from Heroku: $ heroku create.
5. Check the presence of a heroku remote in your repo: $ git remote -v.

Editing

1. Edit files locally.
2. Commit files to your local repo: $ git commit -am "commit message".

Deployment

1. Push code to Heroku: $ git push heroku master.
2. Try out the site via the Heroku link or use command $ heroku open.

Files

• index.html — main page
• index.php — fake file for telling Heroku to use undocumented php buildpack with Apache web server
• .htaccess — Apache configuration file with directive to turn off php engine

Afterwords

You can read more about git deployment on Heroku.

Have fun!