Upload to heroku without git

Question

Im making a tiny web app, really just for personal testing, the app is built with php / mysql, i plan to host it on heroku, but i was wondering is it possible to host stuff

Answer 1

A current option recommended to replace heroku-push is heroku-builds.

With it, you can use heroku builds:create to deploy the current working directory to a Heroku app, among other things.

Answer 2

You can use https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-push and push directories without git.

But I think git is better, because you can setup your repository local so your code is privat and source control isn't a worse thing even if you work alone. You may read this

Answer 3

You can use a plugin heroku push that is built by one of the Heroku engineers. You can find it at https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-push. But there isn't a FTP style upload available if that's what you're looking for.

Also, just because Heroku uses Git doesn't mean you have to have a Github account (since you mention having to have a premium account). All Github provides is an additional place to store your code if you are working on it in a team. There is absolutely NO REASON that you have to use github to use Heroku.

UPDATE: Heroku recently introduced programmatic builds which let you deploy a TAR file directly to Heroku via their API. Read more at https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/12/20/programmatically_release_code_to_heroku_using_the_platform_api

UPDATE2: Heroku have now introduced HTTP GIT - much simpler without having to deal with SSH keys and such like. Also, DropBox deployment is pretty neat.