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Lucee 5 Application Template for Heroku
NO LONGER MAINTAINED
After the recent Heroku breach (and more than the breach, it was the way comms were handled) I closed my 10+ year old Heroku account. As such, there are no more live demos. I haven't been using Lucee/CFML for several years at this point either so this repo will no longer be maintained.
<!-- [](https://snyk.io/test/github/mikesprague/lucee5-heroku?targetFile=pom.xml) Blank application template to deploy [Lucee 5](http://lucee.org) apps on Heroku --- [](https://heroku.com/deploy) Demo: [https://lucee5.herokuapp.com](https://lucee5.herokuapp.com) | [https://lucee5.herokuapp.com/test.cfm](https://lucee5.herokuapp.com/test.cfm) -->
Credits/Notes
- This project is based off of the offical Lucee Heroku Buildpack
Requirements
Instructions
To get started, run the following commands in GitBash (or your terminal of preference):
git clone https://github.com/mikesprague/lucee5-heroku.git
cd lucee5-heroku
mvn package
foreman start
NOTE: On Windows, start foreman with the following command:
foreman start -f Procfile.dev
You should now have Lucee up and running at http://localhost:5000. Start adding your code.
To deploy your site to Heroku you need to setup a free Heroku account, install the Heroku toolbelt (Suggested reading: Getting Started with Java on Heroku). Then...
heroku apps:create [NAME]
git push heroku master
heroku open
You should now be looking at your app running on Heroku.
NOTES:
- If you need access to the admin, disable the first rule in urlrewrite.xml.
- Default password for web admins is
password. This should be changed to something secure before deploying your app. - Make any settings (datasources, mail settings, etc.) changes you want locally via the web context, commit your changes and then deploy your app and they will also exist on Heroku.
- Better practice to add any settings changes, datasources, etc. via Application.cfc; use web context for changes if you must set them via Lucee Admin
- Server context will be overwritten on deploy, very important desired changes are made to web context if you wish to keep them
- If you get a Heroku application error try reloading the page. This is a known issue. I think the Lucee dependencies aren't quite ready when this happens, I need to look into it further.
Enjoy!
Known Projects Using the Lucee 5 Application Template for Heroku
Have a project making use of this application template? Lem me know and I'll be happy to list it below!
- Wheelie CMS developed by Tim Badolato (@timsayshey)
- CFWheels and Lucee powered CMS with one-click Heroku deploy powered by this project
- Check out the project repo for full details: https://github.com/timsayshey/wheelie/