Heroku is a popular platform to quickly run any type of web application.
A preconfigured deploy template is provided for convenience:
¶ Important Notes
- The deployment template will use the default PostgreSQL plan, which is the Hobby Dev (free) plan. You can upgrade to a larger plan afterwards as detailed in the Heroku docs. Another option is to clone the wiki-heroku repository and edit the manifest to use the specific plan you need.
- While the initial deployment is extremely quick and easy, upgrading to a new version is not. You'll need to push a new commit to your app git repo in order to trigger a new build. Unless you are comfortable with the Heroku workflow for deployments, you may want to look into alternative hosting solutions instead.
- The free dyno plan (default) will "sleep" after 30 mins of inactivity. The first page load after such event will take several seconds to complete, as it must spin a new instance. Upgrade to a paid dyno plan to remove this limitation.
- The database endpoint must be provided as
DATABASE_URLenvironment variable to the app (default).
¶ DB Connection Bug
A Heroku-specific bug preventing Wiki.js from connecting to the database by default. The root cause has not yet been identified.
A workaround, which involves downgrading the database to PostgreSQL 10, is provided in this ticket:
https://github.com/Requarks/wiki/issues/2949#issuecomment-773412440
