# Heroku Basic Setup

### Initialize Heroku

Assuming Heroku is installed

```
touch Procfile
echo 'web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public' > Procfile
```

```
heroku login
heroku create
heroku buildpacks:set heroku/php
```

```
heroku config:add APP_ENV=local
heroku config:add APP_DEBUG=true
heroku config:add APP_KEY=...
heroku config:add APP_URL=...
```

### Add Source Control

```
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push heroku master
git remote add origin git@github.com:**********/****.git
git push -u origin master
```

### Migrations

Heroku -> Resources -> Add Heroku Postgres -> Choose the free plan -> Navigate to the Postgres dashboard and copy credentials

```
heroku config:add DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
heroku config:add DB_HOST=...
heroku config:add DB_PORT=...
heroku config:add DB_DATABASE=...
heroku config:add DB_USERNAME=...
heroku config:add DB_PASSWORD=...

heroku run php artisan migrate
```

Add the credentials to Postico as well

### Maintencance

```
heroku maintenance:on
heroku maintenance:off
```