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.
- You want to deploy some straight-up HTML, CSS, JS, maybe a few images. Nothing fancy here.
- You are in the root directory of your site (i.e. the directory that contains all subdirectories and files for the site)
- The root directory contains a main HTML page, e.g. index.html
- A Heroku app and remote are set up and ready to go
- Add a file called composer.json to the root directory by running
touch composer.json - Add a file called index.php to the root directory by running
touch index.php - Rename the homepage (e.g. index.html) to home.html
- In index.php, add the following line:
<?php include_once("home.html"); ?> - In composer.json, add the following line:
{} - Run
git push heroku master
Done! Visit your deployed single-page website, hosted by Heroku (as a fake PHP app ☺).
Hello World 🤓 !For anyone simply looking to deploy a static site, it's probably more convenient these days to use digitalocean's app platform. It's free and you can push directly from github for continuous deploys. You can also connect to custom domains without issues. I highly recommend you follow that if all you need is a static site. Instructions are here