Deploy HTML only app to Heroku?

Question

Can I use Heroku to deploy an HTML prototype?

My HTML prototypes live on Github and Heroku would be a nice way to deploy them so clients can view them.

It seems that this is unsupported, since Heroku expects a Rails/NodeJS/[insert language here] structure or it won't run.

Push rejected, no Cedar-supported app detected

Are there any tricks to circumvent this?

Answer 1

The best solution would be to use a buildpack designed for hosting static content.

I'd suggest the experimental heroku/heroku-buildpack-static buildpack. In brief, just set the buildpack:

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static.git

And add a static.json indicating which directory contains your static assets:

{"root":"public"}

Answer 2

The least effort solution is to rename your default file to index.php and redeploy. Heroku will detect it as a PHP site and use that buildpack.

Alternatively, you can follow this guide https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/static-sites-ruby to set up a sinatra app to host it.