Answers.Body: <p>I solved it.</p>
  
  <p>I needed to remove calls to 'server' and 'http' in my enginx_app.conf file. Now the file only makes calls to 'location'.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: How'd you get the permissions for /app/craft/storage sorted?
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Body: <p>I'm familiar with Heroku, but new to Craft CMS. 
  In order to get a site running, I followed this tutorial: <a href="https://medium.com/@aj1215/craft-cms-on-heroku-79b991665b0b#.8b561b1b4" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@aj1215/craft-cms-on-heroku-79b991665b0b#.8b561b1b4</a></p>
  
  <p>But the site isn't functioning. My Heroku app just results in: <code>Application Error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.</code></p>
  
  <p>My development server runs fine. But I have no idea what I need to do to get the heroku app to function. I'm pulling my hair out.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried everything I can think of, but can't get it to work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.</p>
  
  <p>These are messages toward the end of my Heroku logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2016–01–31T03:09:21.480751+00:00 app[web.1]: nginx: [emerg] “server” directive is not allowed here in /app/nginx_app.conf:1
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.475721+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting nginx…
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.481090+00:00 app[web.1]: Process exited unexpectedly: nginx
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.481236+00:00 app[web.1]: Going down, terminating child processes…
  2016–01–31T03:09:22.183035+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 1
  2016–01–31T03:09:22.182791+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed
  2016–01–31T03:09:27.185620+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc=”App crashed” method=GET path=”/” host=paradata.herokuapp.com request_id=1e502143–94ac-4aea-b34b-3087addd1d20 fwd=”172.11.56.78" dyno= connect= service= status=503 bytes=
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>enginx_app.conf file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        location / {
              # try to serve file directly, fallback to rewrite
              try_files $uri @rewriteapp;
          }
          location @rewriteapp {
              # rewrite all to index.php
              rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?p=$1 last;
          }
          location ~ ^/(index)\.php(/|$) {
              client_max_body_size 20M;
              fastcgi_pass heroku-fcgi;
              fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
              include fastcgi_params;
              fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
              fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
          }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is my <code>craft/config/db.php</code> file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  $url = parse_url(getenv("CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL"));
  
  return array(
  
      'server' =&gt; $url["host"],
  
      'user' =&gt; $url["user"],
  
      'password' =&gt; $url["pass"],
  
      'database' =&gt; substr($url["path"],1),
  
      'tablePrefix' =&gt; 'craft',
  
  );
  </code></pre>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T18:03:16.343Z
Comments.Text: Sounds like something is messed up in your nginx conf file.  Can you share it?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
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Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T18:54:25.293Z
Comments.Text: @BradBell Thank you, Brad. Yes, I'll put that code in immediately.
Comments.UserDisplayName: cheechaw
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Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T19:27:46.590Z
Comments.Text: I'm no nginx expert, but I'm pretty sure the `server` block goes in the `http` block and not the other way around: https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/full/
Comments.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
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Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T19:45:06.003Z
Comments.Text: @BradBell Thanks. i removed the SERVER and HTML calls in the nginx and now the error is "Craft can’t connect to the database with the credentials in craft/config/db.php." when I try to visit /admin. I'll post my db.php if it helps. Thanks for your help!
Comments.UserDisplayName: cheechaw
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T19:50:50.593Z
Comments.Text: Thank you! @BradBell It just started working for some reason. I really just added spaces between some lines in my db.php and that was it. :/
Comments.UserDisplayName: cheechaw
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Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T19:52:06.660Z
Comments.Text: Hah... maybe some weird caching issue going on.  Anyway, glad you're up and running!  Would you mind summarizing what got you going and adding it as an official answer?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-01-31T20:04:01.553Z
Comments.Text: @BradBell Thanks again. I added the answer. However, I have one more 'easy' question for you: Images in my public/images folder are not making it to heroku. Where should I be putting those instead? Thanks again
Comments.UserDisplayName: cheechaw
Tags: <server><apache><logs>
Title: Can't get Craft running on Heroku
ThreadText: # Can't get Craft running on Heroku
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-31)
  
  I'm familiar with Heroku, but new to Craft CMS.
  In order to get a site running, I followed this tutorial: <https://medium.com/@aj1215/craft-cms-on-heroku-79b991665b0b#.8b561b1b4>
  
  But the site isn't functioning. My Heroku app just results in: `Application Error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.`
  
  My development server runs fine. But I have no idea what I need to do to get the heroku app to function. I'm pulling my hair out.
  
  I've tried everything I can think of, but can't get it to work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
  
  These are messages toward the end of my Heroku logs:
  
  ```
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.480751+00:00 app[web.1]: nginx: [emerg] “server” directive is not allowed here in /app/nginx_app.conf:1
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.475721+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting nginx…
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.481090+00:00 app[web.1]: Process exited unexpectedly: nginx
  2016–01–31T03:09:21.481236+00:00 app[web.1]: Going down, terminating child processes…
  2016–01–31T03:09:22.183035+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 1
  2016–01–31T03:09:22.182791+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed
  2016–01–31T03:09:27.185620+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc=”App crashed” method=GET path=”/” host=paradata.herokuapp.com request_id=1e502143–94ac-4aea-b34b-3087addd1d20 fwd=”172.11.56.78" dyno= connect= service= status=503 bytes=
  
  ```
  
  enginx\_app.conf file:
  
  ```
          location / {
              # try to serve file directly, fallback to rewrite
              try_files $uri @rewriteapp;
          }
          location @rewriteapp {
              # rewrite all to index.php
              rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?p=$1 last;
          }
          location ~ ^/(index)\.php(/|$) {
              client_max_body_size 20M;
              fastcgi_pass heroku-fcgi;
              fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
              include fastcgi_params;
              fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
              fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
          }
  
  ```
  
  this is my `craft/config/db.php` file:
  
  ```
  <?php
  
  $url = parse_url(getenv("CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL"));
  
  return array(
  
      'server' => $url["host"],
  
      'user' => $url["user"],
  
      'password' => $url["pass"],
  
      'database' => substr($url["path"],1),
  
      'tablePrefix' => 'craft',
  
  );
  
  ```
  
  **Tags:** server, apache, logs
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Sounds like something is messed up in your nginx conf file.  Can you share it?  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 Thank you, username_1. Yes, I'll put that code in immediately.  
  > **username_1**: I'm no nginx expert, but I'm pretty sure the `server` block goes in the `http` block and not the other way around: https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/full/  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 Thanks. i removed the SERVER and HTML calls in the nginx and now the error is "Craft can’t connect to the database with the credentials in craft/config/db.php." when I try to visit /admin. I'll post my db.php if it helps. Thanks for your help!  
  > **username_0**: Thank you! @username_1 It just started working for some reason. I really just added spaces between some lines in my db.php and that was it. :/  
  > **username_1**: Hah... maybe some weird caching issue going on.  Anyway, glad you're up and running!  Would you mind summarizing what got you going and adding it as an official answer?  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 Thanks again. I added the answer. However, I have one more 'easy' question for you: Images in my public/images folder are not making it to heroku. Where should I be putting those instead? Thanks again  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2016-01-31. Score: 2
  
  I solved it.
  
  I needed to remove calls to 'server' and 'http' in my enginx\_app.conf file. Now the file only makes calls to 'location'.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: How'd you get the permissions for /app/craft/storage sorted?  
  
  ---
  
  