I am new to Heroku and believe I am following all of the steps outlined on Heroku's website to deploy via node.js – https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs – but despite indications of success, I only see this in the browser when I go to my newly-generated herokuapp.com site.
Cannot GET /
No errors when executing
git push heroku master
My Procfile is simply
web: node app.js
I dont quite understand dynos yet, but there seems to be one running:
heroku ps
=== web (1X): node app.js
web.1: up 2014/07/03 23:55:00 (~ 18m ago)
Then:
heroku open
Opening APP-NAME... done
But https://APP-NAME.herokuapp.com/ just displays the Cannot GET / message.
I had my dist directory included in my .gitignore file so I was not committing dist to my repo and not pushing it to Heroku. Therefore, Heroku could not find any content to serve.
I updated my .gitignore, committed, and pushed, and my app shows up just fine on Heroku now.
almost 3 years, but I'm answering for reference.
- generally /dist is a build process generated directory, it's temporary and changes a lot while working in our sources, so /dist is not versioned.
- on your package.json you can add a script called postinstall with this build process, let's say you have a task in gulp called build...so "postinstall": "gulp build"
- if you manage your project's dependencies in bower too, npm install --save bower and "postinstall": "./node_modules/bower/bin/bower install && gulp build"
Just a simple example croped for your package.json
{
"dependencies: {
"bower":"^1.8.0",
"grunt":"^1.0.1",
},
"scripts": {
"start": "node ./www.js",
"build": "grunt dist",
"postinstall": "./node_modules/bower/bin/bower install && npm run build"
}
}
Obvious you're probably done and better nowadays...I'm just referencing it for next consultings.
I would think you haven't added the files to git. Whatever file you've edited on your local machine, you need to git add xyz.ext
, git commit -m "Message"
, git push heroku master -u
(-u
will save the 'heroku master' parameters so future additions you will only need to type git push
).
In short, every time you're asked to deploy the app, you need to git add
, git commit
, git push
. Hope that helps.
I dont know why it worked but i changed the location of my angular /dist
from [root]client/dist
to [root]/dist
which is at the same directory level as server.js