Using Heroku for Production

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video I want to talk about web hosting.
• 00:06 Now, we're not going to be really building a lot
• 00:09 of website type things in this course, but ususally you use PHP for a website.
• 00:14 So I want to spend just a few minutes talking about an easy way to push this
• 00:18 code that we're building up to a third party web hosting company.
• 00:22 And the one I recommend is Heroku, they've been around forever.
• 00:25 And they have a free tier and we're going to use that.
• 00:27 Before we get started with Heroku,
• 00:29 we need one more tool we need to sort of download and install,
• 00:34 something called the heroku toolbelt, and just Google that and you'll find it.
• 00:39 And let's see, it's this one down here.
• 00:42 It's devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli,
• 00:47 and just come down here and you want whatever version you need for
• 00:51 whatever computer you're using.
• 00:54 And we're on Windows, so we want the 64-bit installer.
• 00:57 So click that, and it will download, save it anywhere, and it's a pretty small file.
• 01:03 So once it's finished, you can go ahead and just click it to install it.
• 01:06 Now there's nothing much to this.
• 01:08 So you just click Next, and then Install.
• 01:11 I'm not going to do it because I've already installed it on my computer, but
• 01:15 you can go ahead and do that now.
• 01:16 You need to restart your Git Bash terminal.
• 01:19 So I actually come up here and close it and
• 01:21 then restart it again because that's what you need to do.
• 01:25 Once you restart it,
• 01:26 type in heroku --version just to make sure everything was installed correctly.
• 01:30 And if it says something here, like this, it means it was installed.
• 01:35 If you get an error message, it means you need to install it again.
• 01:38 If you're not familiar with Heroku, go to heroku.com and just sort of check it out.
• 01:43 Like I said, there's a free tier and that's what we're going to be using.
• 01:46 So go ahead and sign up for an account, and
• 01:49 then once you do, head back over to terminal,
• 01:52 make sure you're in your PHP course directory and type in heroku login.
• 01:58 And when you do, it'll pop up after you hit the Enter button,
• 02:02 and it asks you to log into heroku on the web browser.
• 02:06 So type in your credentials.
• 02:10 Okay, now we can close this thing, this one, and head back over here.
• 02:15 And you can see it sort of looks like it's kind of hanging, hit the
• 02:19 Ctrl+C button at the same time on your keyboard to break out of that.
• 02:24 All right, so now we need to add our
• 02:30 SSH key, so heroku keys:add.
• 02:35 And its found our SSH key.
• 02:37 Click Yes, uploading.
• 02:40 And it looks like it's kind of hanging here.
• 02:41 If it hangs for you, hit the Ctrl+C button to break out of there again.
• 02:45 Okay, so let's clear the screen.
• 02:47 Next we need heroku create, and now this will create an app on Heroku for us.
• 02:53 Again, totally free.
• 02:55 So here we can, copy this.
• 03:00 And head back over to our web browser and paste that in.
• 03:04 And you can see we've got this sort of default screen, so okay pretty good.
• 03:08 Now since we've saved our code to Git,
• 03:12 we can push it up to our new project on Heroku.
• 03:16 So to do that we just type in git push heroku master.
• 03:26 And it's given us some warnings.
• 03:31 Okay, so now we can head back over here and hit reload and
• 03:35 we see hello world, how are you?
• 03:37 Now this is live and online.
• 03:39 And granted this is not a great URL, but you can buy a domain name for
• 03:45 ten bucks a year and point it towards this if you want.
• 03:49 You can Google how to do that.
• 03:50 With your specific registrar, it's real simple,
• 03:53 I'm not even going to discuss it in this video.
• 03:55 But yeah, this is very cool.
• 03:55 This is now online, and it actually works.
• 03:58 Now there's nothing much here, but we created this simple file, index.php.
• 04:04 We've got some text, and now this is live online, just that easy, and for free.
• 04:09 Now, granted, this is not great web hosting because it's the free tier.
• 04:13 If more than a few people hit this website at once it's going to crash.
• 04:16 If you want more powerful, you have to actually pay it for Heroku and
• 04:19 you can look into that if you're interested in that.
• 04:21 Very, very cool and very easy.
• 04:24 So that's all for Heroku.
• 04:26 In the next video, we're going to jump in and start actually learning PHP and
• 04:29 that'll start in the next video.

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