Category Archives: Setup

You can upload a WAR file to Heroku and have your web. application up and running on your custom domain. Read this! Its super easy – https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/war-deployment Essentially, you do the following (these are my internal notes ) 1. Run Maven with package goal to generate a war 3. Login to heroku login 4. GoContinue reading “Heroku supports deploying Java web applications via cmd line”

Introduction Postgres (or PostgreSQL) is an open source database. Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework written in Ruby. Rails is database agnostic, meaning it can be used with a variety of different databases. By default it assumes that MySQL is being used, but it’s quite easy to use with Postgres instead. ThisContinue reading “How To Setup Ruby on Rails with Postgres”

In order to run PHP on your local Windows computer, you need to install a server stack – either WAMP or XAMPP. Either will do, but for the purposes of this tutorial we’re going to stick with WAMP. Mac users: Most of what you need to run basic server-side scripts is already installed on your Mac.Continue reading “Setup Virtual Hosts Using WAMP”