INSTALLATION_HEROKU.md

How to install the Open Event Web App Generator on Heroku

To setup the open-event-webapp on heroku follow the following steps:

Automatic Deploy

You can use the one click deployment:

Manual Deploy

You can also setup your app on heroku manually:

Requirements:

• heroku toolbelt installed on your system For more info on heroku toolbelt: here
• git installed on your system

Installation with Heroku

Note: Our app has an app.json, so it can be directly forked and setup on Heroku.

1. First fork and clone the open-event-webapp git repository

$ git clone https://github.com/yourusername/open-event-webapp.git

Note: replace 'yourusername' with your github username

2. login into heroku toolbelt

$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: [email protected]
Password (typing will be hidden):
Authentication successful.

3. Now change your working directory into open event webapp folder

$ cd open-event-webapp/

4. do heroku create to create an heroku app

$ heroku create
Creating app... done, ⬢ your-heroku-app-name
https://your-heroku-app-name.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git

Note: replace 'your-heroku-app-name' with your heroku app name

5. check if heroku's git url is added into the remote by git remote -v

$ git remote -v
heroku	https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git (fetch)
heroku	https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git (push)
origin	https://github.com/yourusername/open-event-webapp.git (push)
origin	https://github.com/yourusername/open-event-webapp.git (push)

6. if it is not added automatically add the link to heroku's repository by typing following command in terminal

$ git remote add heroku https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git

7. now push the code from the development branch to heroku's master branch

$ git push heroku development:master

8. confirm the webapp is running

$ heroku logs --tail

9. sometimes the server may take a while to start, the logs would say State changed from starting to up when the server is ready.

10. open the URL of your server in your browser

$ heroku open

It will fire up your deployed app like this:

Congrats you are done now!

• Your app should be available at : https://your-heroku-app-name.herokuapp.com/