Static websites with Heroku

I recently moved off of Dreamhost in favor of Heroku. I have a few static sites I needed to move over and here's how I did it:

Basically, I'm using Rack with some extensions (rack-contrib and rack-rewrite) to serve up the /public directory. Nice and easy!

Posted on Monday, Jan 25, 2010

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Feb 04, 2010

Art said...

OK, I've tried to follow what you are doing here but still really confused. Can you provide an entire static website example (just a single index.html/php file will do) to show the layout of the directory structures. I've tried moving over a simple site using this technique but can't get it to work. Thanks!

Feb 05, 2010

Rich Manalang said...

@art, the dir structure is simple... all you need is a ../public directory with all your html inside it. Make sure you have an index.html inside it. The config.ru and Gemfile belong in the ./ directory.

Jun 15, 2010

Scott O said...

I have my files arranged properly in /public (I've been using the code at http://mwhuss.com/2009/12/13/static-sites-on-heroku-in-two-lines to deploy my static sites at Heroku) and I can successfully install the above files with my files at Heroku:

-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Rack app detected

-----> Installing gem rack-contrib from http://rubygems.org
Successfully installed rack-contrib-1.0.1
1 gem installed

-----> Installing gem rack-rewrite from http://rubygems.org
Successfully installed rack-rewrite-1.0.0
1 gem installed

Compiled slug size is 1.1MB
-----> Launching...... done
http://<myapp>.heroku.com deployed to Heroku

but no joy:

config.ru:6: uninitialized constant Rack::ETag (NameError)
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:21
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `instance_eval'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `new'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `map'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:16
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `instance_eval'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `initialize'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:9:in `new'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:9
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `instance_eval'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:29:in `initialize'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:1:in `new'
from /home/heroku_rack/heroku.ru:1

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