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(*you only need to write whats written in italics)

 It will ask you your login credentials of heroku that you’ve set earlier. Enter the details and for the first time it will ask you to generate a public key, you just enter “yes” and press enter.(don’t worry if you don’t know what it is, lets just say, it makes your connection with heroku a secure one so that no one knows what you are doing on the network).

Now you’ll need to create one app on Heroku:

C:\Users\Gagan>heroku create thehelloworldapp --stack cedar Creating thehelloworldapp... done, stack is cedar http://thehelloworldapp.herokuapp.com/ | [email protected]:thehelloworldapp.git

–stack cedar, this argument tells heroku to make it a PHP server. In this example, the application name is thehelloworldapp that Heroku has created, just make sure you remember it(write it down) as we’ll need it later.

Now you’ll need to get the empty app you created to your computer so that you can make changes in it or add/remove files, for that we’ll first need to clone that app to our local system:

C:\Users\Gagan>git clone [email protected]:thehelloworldapp.git -o heroku Cloning into thehelloworldapp... The authenticity of host 'heroku.com (50.19.85.154)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'heroku.com,50.19.85.154' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

This will create a folder named thehelloworldapp in the current working folder. As you can see, we need to write the exact same app name as we were provided in step 6.

Enter the newly created folder:

C:\Users\Gagan>cd thehelloworldapp

Now create one file named index.php in this folder so as to test your application, I used command prompt to do that as follows(press CTRL+Z and hit enter to save the file)

C:\Users\Gagan\thehelloworldapp>copy con index.php Hello World! ^Z 1 file(s) copied.

Now we need to update repository and commit the changes(you don’t need to worry if you don’t know this term also, just do as written)

C:\Users\Gagan\thehelloworldapp>git add -A C:\Users\Gagan\thehelloworldapp>git commit -am "Added one file" [master (root-commit) 67005ad] Added one file Committer: unknown <Gagan@.(none)> Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly: git config --global user.name "Your Name" git config --global user.email [email protected] After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with: git commit --amend --reset-author 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 index.php

And now the final step of uploading it to the server which is damn easy

C:\Users\Gagan\thehelloworldapp>git push heroku master Counting objects: 3, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 274 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) -----> Heroku receiving push -----> PHP app detected -----> Bundling Apache v2.2.19 -----> Bundling PHP v5.3.6 -----> Discovering process types Procfile declares types -> (none) Default types for PHP -> web -----> Compiled slug size is 21.5MB -----> Launching... done, v3 http://thehelloworldapp.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku To [email protected]:thehelloworldapp.git * [new branch] master -> master

Now your app is up and running, you can check it out by going to the URL http://yourapp.herokuapp.com (here yourapp is the name of your app that we created in step 6).

Eg: http://thehelloworldapp.herokuapp.com

All the hard work is done, now if you make any changes in the directory, all you need to do is step 10 and 11(from the same directory) to update or manipulate your working app on heroku.

Now you might ask, why to choose heroku when there are many other servers out there for free, well for one simple reason, its fast, robust and reliable in comparison to all those free servers available out there for hosting PHP files though one drawback being that you can only use Postgre SQL on this, using which I’ll explain later on.

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Messing with Keys? For guys who are still messing up with the keys or have changed their computers or operating systems, you’ll have to do something like this also: First of all remove all the existing files from the folder C:\Users\Username\.SSH (if they exist) Then on the command prompt: