SCP File from local to Heroku Server

Question

I'd like to copy my config.yml file from my local django app directory to my heroku server, but I'm not sure how to get the [email protected] format for heroku.

I've tried running 'heroku run bash'

scp  /home/user/app/config.yml

I'm not sure how I can get it in the

scp [email protected]:/home/user/dir1/file.txt [email protected]:/home/user/dir2' 

format

Answer 1

As @tamas7 said it's firewalled, but your local machine is probably also firewalled. So unless you have a private server with SSH accessible from the Internet, you won't be able to scp.

I'm personally using transfer.sh free and open source service.

Upload your config.yml to it:

$ curl --upload-file ./config.yml https://transfer.sh/
https://transfer.sh/66nb8/config.yml

Then download it back from wherever you want:

$ wget https://transfer.sh/66nb8/config.yml

Answer 2

According to http://www.evans.io/posts/heroku-survival-guide/ incoming connections are firewalled off. In this case you need to approach your local machine from the Heroku server.

heroku run bash
scp user@mylocalmachine:/home/user/dir/file.txt .