----- isHidden: false menupriority: 1 kind: article created_at: 2010-08-23T15:05:13+02:00 title: Now hosted by heroku subtitle: Host static website on Heroku author_name: Yann Esposito author_uri: yannesposito.com tags: - blog ----- # Now on [Heroku](http://heroku.com) I now changed my hosting to [Heroku](http://heroku.com). I believe it will be far more reliable. But as you should know my website is completely static. I use [nanoc](http://nanoc.stoneship.org/) to generate it. But here is the conf to make it work on heroku. The root of my files is `/output`. You only need to create a `config.ru`[^1] file: [^1]: I was inspired by this [article](http://gmarik.info/blog/2010/05/10/blogging-with-jekyll-and-heroku-for-free).


require 'rubygems'
require 'rack'
require 'rack/contrib'
require 'rack-rewrite'
require 'mime/types'

use Rack::ETag
module ::Rack
    class TryStatic < Static

        def initialize(app, options)
            super
            @try = ([''] + Array(options.delete(:try)) + [''])
        end

        def call(env)
            @next = 0
            while @next < @try.size && 404 == (resp = super(try_next(env)))[0] 
                @next += 1
            end
            404 == resp[0] ? @app.call : resp
        end

        private
        def try_next(env)
            env.merge('PATH_INFO' => env['PATH_INFO'] + @try[@next])
        end

    end
end

use Rack::TryStatic, 
    :root => "output",                              # static files root dir
    :urls => %w[/],                                 # match all requests 
    :try => ['.html', 'index.html', '/index.html']  # try these postfixes sequentially

errorFile='output/Scratch/en/error/404-not_found/index.html'
run lambda { [404, {
                "Last-Modified"  => File.mtime(errorFile).httpdate,
                "Content-Type"   => "text/html",
                "Content-Length" => File.size(errorFile).to_s
            }, File.read(errorFile)] }

and the `.gems` file needed to install `rack` middlewares.


rack
rack-rewrite
rack-contrib

Now, just follow the heroku tutorial to create an application :


git init
git add .
heroku create
git push heroku master

Now I'll should be able to redirect properly to my own 404 page for example. I hope it is helpful.