How to deploy a static website to Heroku

Sometimes you want to deploy a simple website or a simple page to a free hosting for testing or development purposes this guide will help you to do it in an easy way.

The approach used to deploy the static website is to trick Heroku to think this is a php application and the redirect to our html file.

Basic Assumptions in order to this guide works

You want to deploy some straight-up HTML, CSS, JS, maybe a few images. Nothing fancy here.
You are in the root directory of your site (i.e. the directory that contains all subdirectories and files for the site)
The root directory contains a main HTML page,for instance an index.html
A Heroku app and remote are set up and ready to go - Check this tutorial if you haven’t set up already the heroku app Click here

Steps

First you have to add a file called composer.json to the root directory using the following command in prompt (linux prompt) touch composer.json
Add a file called index.php to the root directory using the following command: touch index.php
The file you have as entry should have a different name than index.html (if not it won’t work) so, rename the homepage static html file (e.g. index.html) to home.html
Then edit the index.php that we’ve created in step #2, and add the following line to it ONLY
```
<?php include_once("home.html"); ?> 
```
After editing the index.php file next you have to edit composer.json and add the following line to the file {}
Last step is to run the following command (we assumed you already set up the heroku app and the git branch inside your project)

git push heroku master

That’s it! Visit your deployed single-page website, hosted by Heroku (as a simple PHP app 😎).

Thanks for reading this post if you have questions feel free to let me know, the best

Jay