- Create a Heroku account https://www.heroku.com/
- Download the Heroku toolbelt https://toolbelt.heroku.com/
- Login with heroku:
heroku login
- Clone the Loklak server (if not already) :
git clone https://github.com/loklak/loklak_server.git
- Move into the cloned repository:
cd loklak_server
- Create a heroku app:
heroku create
- Set the buildpack:
heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-gradle.git
- Push your app to heroku:
git push heroku master
In case if it doesn't get pushed, usegit push heroku HEAD:master
- Confirm the loklak server is running:
heroku logs --tail
- Sometimes the server may take a while to start. The logs would show
State changed from starting to up
when the server is ready. - Open the URL of your server in your browser:
heroku open
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