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How to Deploy Heroku Laravel Project

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To deploy Heroku Laravel project, you just need to perfom two tasks in heroku console. These two tasks are launching the web server and deploying code in the laravel environment.

Two tasks:

  1. Create a “Procfile”.
  2. Deploy code using “git push”.

Creating a Procfile

Input code:

echo "web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/" > Procfile

git add .
git commit -m "Procfile for Heroku"

Full screenshot:

echo "web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/" > Procfile
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Procfile for Heroku"
[master 1eb2be6] Procfile for Heroku
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Procfile

Create a New Heroku Laravel Application

Input code:

heroku create

Full screenshot:

$ heroku create
Creating mighty-hamlet-1982... done, stack is heroku-18
http://mighty-hamlet-1982.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:mighty-hamlet-1982.git
Git remote heroku added

How to setup a Heroku Laravel Encryption Key

Input code:

heroku config:set APP_KEY=…

Full screenshot:

$ heroku config:set APP_KEY=…
Setting config vars and restarting mighty-hamlet-1982... done, v3
APP_KEY: ZEqur46KTEG91iWPhKGY42wtwi3rtkx2

How to Push Heroku Laravel Project

Input code:

git push heroku master

Full screenshot:

$ git push heroku master
Counting objects: 4, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 379 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Compressing source files... done.
remote: Building source:
remote:
remote: -----> Fetching custom git buildpack... done
remote: -----> PHP app detected
remote: -----> Resolved 'composer.lock' requirement for PHP to version 5.6.14.
remote: -----> Installing system packages...
remote:        - PHP 5.6.14
remote:        - Apache 2.4.10
remote:        - Nginx 1.6.0
remote: -----> Installing PHP extensions...
remote:        - mbstring (composer.lock; bundled)
remote:        - zend-opcache (automatic; bundled)
remote: -----> Installing dependencies...
remote:        Composer version 1.0.0-alpha10 2015-04-14 21:18:51
remote:        Loading composer repositories with package information
remote:        Installing dependencies from lock file
...
remote:          - Installing laravel/framework (v5.1.19)
remote:            Downloading: 100%
remote:
remote:        Generating optimized autoload files
remote:        Generating optimized class loader
remote:        Compiling common classes
remote: -----> Preparing runtime environment...
remote: -----> Discovering process types
remote:        Procfile declares types -> web
remote:
remote: -----> Compressing... done, 74.5MB
remote: -----> Launching... done, v5
remote:        https://mighty-hamlet-1982.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote:
remote: Verifying deploy... done.
To https://git.heroku.com/mighty-hamlet-1982.git
   1eb2be6..1b70999  master -> master

How to Open Heroku Laravel Project

Input code:

heroku open

Full screenshot:

$ heroku open
Opening mighty-hamlet-1982... done

All done! You should see the Laravel version at the last message. Now you can open and edit your heroku laravel project.

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