This is a Heroku buildpack for static websites, or whatever you want.
$ ls
index.html somedir/
$ git init
$ heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack https://github.com/pearkes/heroku-buildpack-static
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "initial commit"
$ git push heroku master
The Apache configuration file is located in conf/httpd.conf. To customize, fork and use your fork as the buildpack url on app create.
To test changes to this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then create a test app with --buildpack and push to it.
All improvements are appreciated!
Copyright (c) 2012 Jack Pearkes
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