Forking my existing heroku app for multiple environments

Question

I'm trying to fork my existing app so that i can create a staging environment separate to a production one, and I'm running into errors no matter what I try.

I definitely have a heroku toolbelt, and I'm definitely logged in.

When I run git remote -v I get this:

origin  https://github.com/account/mysite.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/account/mysite.git (push)
production  [email protected]:mysite.git (fetch)
production  [email protected]:mysite.git (push)

When I run heroku fork -a production staging I get this:

Failed to fork app production to staging.

     !    WARNING: Potentially Destructive Action
 !    This command will destroy staging (including all add-ons).
 !    To proceed, type "staging" or re-run this command with --confirm staging

If I type staging then I get this:

Deleting staging... failed
 !    You do not have access to the app staging.

What I'm confused about is why it thinks an app called 'staging' exists at all, I'm trying to fork it as a new environment.

When I try the other suggestion in the terminal I get this:

heroku fork -a production --confirm staging
 !    Mismatch between --app and --confirm
Failed to fork app  to .
 !    Confirmed app staging did not match the selected app .

When I try heroku apps:info I get:

 !    App not found

which also seem weird. If I specify heroku apps:info --app staging or heroku apps:info --app production then I get

 !    You do not have access to the app staging.

When I try git remote rm staging it just confirms there is no 'staging' environment:

error: Could not remove config section 'remote.staging'

I also don't seem to have the 'production' side of things working either, as when I do git push production master I get

 !  No such app as mysite.

But when I visit http://mysite.herokuapp.com it absolutely exists!

This is driving me crazy - can anyone help?

Answer 1

staging should be the name of the application you are creating, not the name of the git remote. You need to pick a unique name. I typically use mysite-prod and mysite-staging as my application names.