Let's begin by describing Heroku. Heroku is a cloud application platform a new way of building and deploying web applications,applications (www.heroku.com).
This guide provides the steps required for creating a Heroku account, instaling Heroku Toolbelt, configuration configuring and last deployment finally deploying in the Heroku environment.
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- Go to https://toolbelt.heroku.com
- Hit the download button for you OS.
Once you have created your Heroku account you give your credentials after typing in the command line
Code Block language text $ heroku login
Install the
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heroku-deploy plugin
This project is a Heroku toolbelt plugin for deploying WAR files. It can also be used to deploy executable JAR files.
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- Create a folder for example termweb-heroku in your local drive.
- Go to the command line and navigate to the created folder from the previous step
When you are in the targeted folder type in the command line
Code Block language text $ heroku create
You have now created a Dyno, your virtual environment ready for deploying your application. A random name will be assigned by Heroku, for example obscure-peak-95997
Deploying the
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war file to Heroku
- In the folder you have created for your app in this case termweb-heroku you must have the following files: 1. .WAR file 2.Procfile.
- Procfile creation details go to: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile
As soon as all the required files are in the folder enter the command so as to deploy your code in Heroku:
Code Block language text $ heroku deploy:war --war <your war file> --app <your heroku app name>
After the deployment you can now open your application in the browser by typing:
Code Block language text $ heroku open --app <your heroku app name>
Database creation
You can go to your Heroku dashboard (https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps), choose your dyno and then go to Add-ons and add Heroku Postgress database, or again by giving the command in the command line:
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Useful configuration commands
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