How to setup Laravel Application on Heroku

Server Setup

• Make sure Required packages are in "require": {

  brew install heroku/brew/heroku
  heroku login

• Make sure composer, php and git commands working
• Go inside Laravel Project and create Procfile

  echo "web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/" > Procfile
  git add Procfile
  git commit -m "Procfile for Heroku"

• Create Heroku Server

  heroku create laplus-heroku
  heroku buildpacks:set heroku/php
  heroku config:set APP_KEY=$(php artisan --no-ansi key:generate --show)

• go to config/app.php and set 'log'=>'errorlog'

  git commit -m "Heroku app is ready"
  git push heroku master --app laplus-heroku

• Start server

  heroku open --app laplus-heroku

2. Database Setup

• Add Add-on JawsDB Maria
• Go to https://dashboard.jawsdb.com/maria/dashboard and use same credentials for ENV in
• https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/laplus-heroku/settings --> Config Vars

  DB_CONNECTION=mysql
  DB_DATABASE=xxxxxxx
  DB_HOST=xxxxxxx
  DB_PASSWORD=xxxxxxx
  DB_PORT=xxxxxxx
  DB_USERNAME=xxxxxxx
  APP_URL=https://laplus-heroku.herokuapp.com
  REDIRECT_HTTPS=true

• Migration Command

  heroku run --app laplus-heroku php artisan migrate:refresh --seed