Is it possible to upload a simple html and javascript file structure to heroku?

Question

I\'m trying to deploy an open source project of mine to heroku, it is by necessity very simple with just static html and javascript. But do they not support static sites?

Answer 1

Here is a more elegant method: Just add a file called package.json which tells Heroku to use harp as your server:

{
  "name": "my-static-site",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "This will load any static html site",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "harp server --port $PORT"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "harp": "*"
  }
}

and then deploy to Heroku. Done!

Further information: https://harpjs.com/docs/deployment/heroku

Answer 2

Here is what worked for me:

cd myProject 
git init
heroku create myApp 
heroku git:remote -a myApp 

If the entry point is main.html, create index.php with this single line of content:

<?php include_once("main.html"); ?>

and then perform the following steps:

echo '{}' > composer.json 
git add . 
git commit -am "first commit" 
git push heroku master

Go to http://myApp.herokuapp.com/ and your app should be online now.

Answer 3

You can use rack to do this:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/static-sites-on-heroku

or you can use something like Octopress/Jekyll who uses sinatra.

But you need a minimum stack to serve html static content

Answer 4

I know this might be a little old but I ended up using Vienna Gemw to deploy this, basically its a small Rack application that will let you serve everything in your public folder (css, images, js, html) with just a couple of lines of Ruby:

require 'vienna'
run Vienna

Also, for deploying this on heroku you need to create a Gemfile:

source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'rack'
gem 'vienna'

Then run bundle install, in case you don't have the bundle gem installed just run on your terminal:

sudo gem install bundle

And thats pretty much of it, you can have more information on: http://kmikael.com/2013/05/28/creating-static-sites-in-ruby-with-rack/