Scala Play 2.2 application crashes after deploying in Heroku: target/start No such file or directory

Question

I\'ve been fighting with this for hours and I can\'t figure out why after deploying my Scala Play 2.2 application in Heroku I get this stacktrace:

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Answer 1

Play 2.2 changed the name and location of the file used to start your app

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/Production

For example, to start an application of the project ‘foo’ from the project folder, update your Procfile to run:

target/universal/stage/bin/foo