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Rohit Urane
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Host your laravel application on Heroku for free.

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Host your testing laravel application on Heroku for free.

Do you want to #host your laravel application on Heroku? You are going with a new setup of the laravel application.

Creating Laravel application on Local System

First, I am installing the laravel application on the local development system through composer.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel herokuApp
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Make Procfile inside the root folder of your project

After completing the installation, create a file of the name Procfile and insert the below code. This file is a configuration file for Heroku.

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/
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Download and login to the Heroku platform from the command line

For that, you need to install Heroku CLI on your system. Go to the Heroku platform and download & install it. Click Here. Run the below command inside your project folder.

heroku login
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It will open a browser window to log in to Heroku. If you don't have an account on Heroku, create it first.

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