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This is a quick tutorial explaining how to get a static website hosted on Heroku.

Why do this?

Heroku hosts apps on the internet, not static websites. To get it to run your static portfolio, personal blog, etc., you need to trick Heroku into thinking your website is a PHP app. This 6-step tutorial will teach you how.

Basic Assumptions

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If:

- you add and commit with the wrong email address in git, and
- your remote has a hook set up to prevent you from pushing with the bad address

Then you need to amend the author of your commit before push can succeed:

1. fix your email address in git config:

$ git config user.name "Your Name"