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Let's begin by describing Heroku.Heroku is a cloud application platform a new way of building and deploying web applications,(www.heroku.com). This guide provides the steps required for creating a Heroku account, instaling Heroku Toolbelt, configuration and last deployment in the Heroku environment. 

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 This project is a Heroku toolbelt plugin for deploying WAR files. It can also be used to deploy executable JAR files.

1. Go to 

   Using the Heroku toolbelt you can write in the command line: 

   $ heroku plugins:install https://github.com/heroku/heroku-deploy

    or using the Heroku toolbelt 

2. Add the line

    

   export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xms128m -Xmx512m"

Restart Tomcat after the file is edited and saved. You can confirm that Tomcat has picked up the correct settings by running

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1. 2. Check if the heroku-deploy plugin is installed by typing in the command line
   $ heroku plugins
   And if everything is ok you will see: 
   === Installed Plugins
   heroku-deploy

Creating a Heroku application

1. Create a folder for example termweb-heroku in your local drive.
2. Go to the command line and navigate to the created folder from the previous step
3. When you are in the targeted folder type in the command line
   

   $ heroku create

   4. 

    

Database connection

When Tomcat is installed, please refer to Connecting TermWeb to a Database for setting up and configuring the database.

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In the file <tomcat-install>/webapps/termweb/WEB-INF/termweb.properties.sample you will find settings that may have to be adjusted according to your environment. Rename this file to termweb.properties and edit the values for termweb.home, base.url and work.dir values.

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