Fix no procfile using ‘web heroku-php-apache2’ for Laravel on Windows

If you have followed the docs and see this error two things you should do…

1. Creating Procfile correctly The docs ask us to execute this command

// Do not do this
echo "web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/" > Procfile

Remember, you need to remove those quotes when executing from the command prompt. The exact line is

// Execute this
echo web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/ > Procfile

And do check the name of the file, it should start with p in uppercase: Procfile

2. Checking the branch If you are not on the local master branch while deploying the code to Heroku, you will end up with the errors.

You need to push to heroku master while you are on your local master branch. This is the default setup.

For some reasons, if you want to push to Heroku from a different branch you need to do this:

git push heroku you-local-branch:master

Rename your-local-branch to the actual name of your current branch. This also solves everything up-to-date issue.

// E.g. If I need to push my local "checking-branch" to heroku instead of master, I need to do:
git push heroku check-branch:master