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Title: Deploying Raneto to Heroku
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[Heroku](https://www.heroku.com) is a cloud hosting platform which allows you to host your websites.
In this tutorial we are going to use Heroku to host our Raneto Knowledgebase on the [free 1 dyno plan](https://www.heroku.com/pricing).

## Prerequisites

Before we get going there are a few things we need to make sure we have in place first:

1. We are going to assume you have already [installed](%base_url%/install/installing-raneto) and set up Raneto on your local machine
2. You are going to need a free [Heroku user account](https://signup.heroku.com/signup)
3. You will also need to have the [Heroku Toolbelt](https://toolbelt.heroku.com) installed

## Login to Heroku

First you need to open a command shell in the root of your Raneto install. You then need to login to Heroku
using the `heroku login` command. You will be asked to setup some `ssh` keys if you haven't done so already.
Just follow the instructions.

    $ heroku login
    Enter your Heroku credentials.
    Email: user@example.com
    Password:
    Could not find an existing public key.
    Would you like to generate one? [Yn]
    Generating new SSH public key.
    Uploading ssh public key /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

## Clone Raneto and make edits

Heroku works by deploying a Git repository to their servers.  
So we need to make your Raneto install is a Git repository.  
This also means you will need to commit any changes you make to Git before deploying them to Heroku.  
Thankfully this is easy to setup:

    $ git clone https://github.com/ryanlelek/Raneto.git
    $ cd Raneto/
    [NOW EDIT FILES IN content/]
    $ git add content/
    $ git commit -m "My Changes"

Remember you will need to `git commit` any future changes you make before deployment.  
**NOTE: In the near future, we will isolate Raneto code from your documentation content (coming soon)**

## Deploy Raneto to Heroku

First we need to create the app in Heroku by running:

    $ heroku create
    Creating sharp-rain-871... done, stack is cedar-14
    http://sharp-rain-871.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:sharp-rain-871.git
    Git remote heroku added

Heroku will assign you a random subdomain that your app will be available at.

Next we need to "push" our Git repository to Heroku by running:

    $ git push heroku main

You should see Heroku go through its deployment steps and successfully deploy your app.  
Note that you will need to run the `git push heroku main` command after your commit changes every time you want to publish your Raneto site.

Finally we just need to make sure that we have one dyno running our `web` process.  
This command only needs to be run this one time.

    $ heroku ps:scale web=1

You can now visit your live Raneto install in the browser by running the `heroku open` command.

    $ heroku open
    Opening sharp-rain-871... done

## Further Reading

- [Getting Started with Node.js on Heroku](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs)
- [Process Types and the Procfile](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile)
- [Dynos and the Dyno Manager](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos)
- [Custom Domains](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains)