From 686bb3f3ad90d0462fc0336ee31fe472fa6d2500 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Brooks Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:20:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Deploy to Heroku installation --- INSTALL.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index f4ff6ab6b..e83ad664c 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ Cachet is written in PHP and uses SQLite/MySQL for its database. It's really eas You need at least PHP, [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) and the `php-mcrypt` extension installed to run Cachet. 1. [Get a copy!](#get-a-copy) -2. [Configuring a database!](#configuring-a-database) +2. [Deploy to Heroku](#deploy-to-heroku) +3. [Configuring a database!](#configuring-a-database) 1. [Running database migrations](#running-database-migrations) -3. [Apache setup](#apache) +4. [Apache setup](#apache) ## Get a copy! @@ -20,6 +21,10 @@ $ cd Cachet $ composer install ``` +## Deploy to Heroku + +When using the **Deploy to Heroku** button you needn't worry about using a database as the install will setup a free instance of ClearDB. + ## Configuring a database Cachet relies on a database to store the components and incidents, but by default the configuration is left with SQLite. This is great if you're not pushing the repository to Heroku, Dokku or other virtual containers as the information will be lost each time you push.