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Scala Programming Projects
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Scala Programming Projects

by Mikael Valot, Nicolas Jorand
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
9h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Heroku configuration

How does Heroku know how to execute the application?

Heroku knows how to execute the application by reading the instructions from a file named Procfile, located at the root of the project; the content is as follows:

web: server/target/universal/stage/bin/server -Dhttp.port=$PORT -Dconfig.file=server/conf/heroku.conf

The first indication in the line is the type of application. This can be anything. The web value is a special type, telling Heroku that this process only receives requests from HTTP.

The second part is the path to the executable. In fact, the SBT project creates this executable for us during the build process.

The last part is a list of properties for the Play application, namely

  • -Dhttp.port, which sets the ...
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