SCP File from local to Heroku Server

Question

I'd like to copy my config.yml file from my local django app directory to my heroku server, but I'm not sure how to get the [email protected] format for heroku.

I've tried running 'heroku run bash'

scp  /home/user/app/config.yml

I'm not sure how I can get it in the

scp [email protected]:/home/user/dir1/file.txt [email protected]:/home/user/dir2' 

format

Solution 1

As @tamas7 said it's firewalled, but your local machine is probably also firewalled. So unless you have a private server with SSH accessible from the Internet, you won't be able to scp.

I'm personally using transfer.sh free and open source service.

Upload your config.yml to it:

$ curl --upload-file ./config.yml https://transfer.sh/
https://transfer.sh/66nb8/config.yml

Then download it back from wherever you want:

$ wget https://transfer.sh/66nb8/config.yml

Solution 2

According to http://www.evans.io/posts/heroku-survival-guide/ incoming connections are firewalled off. In this case you need to approach your local machine from the Heroku server.

heroku run bash
scp user@mylocalmachine:/home/user/dir/file.txt .

Solution 3

This is a bit late to answer this question, but I use services like localtunnel - https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ to copy files from local machine to heroku.

First, run a python HTTP server in the directory where the file is located.

cd /path/to/file
python3 -m http.server

This starts a server in port 8000. Configure localtunnel to connect to that port.

lt -s mylocal -p 8000

Now from your heroku machine, you can fetch the file via curl.

curl -XGET http://mylocal.localtunnel.me/myfile.txt > myfile.txt

Comments

[Tyler Graf]

user@mylocalmachine - do I need an ip address? How do I tell it where my local machine is?

[Michael]

Really upload config files unencrypted?

[Andre Miras]

@Michael, yes you can use gpg if you want, but that was not the OP question and I tried to keep it straightforward. Feel free to add a complement answer to this one if you think it's useful.

[Gunnar]

Neat trick, really useful for what I was looking for. Thanks.

[Endogen]

"mylocalmachine" is the IP and "user" is the user that you are logging in to your server

[niklasae]

If you want to encrypt it you can upload it using: cat <file_name> | gpg -ac -o- | curl -X PUT -T "-" https://transfer.sh/<file_name>.gpg And download it using: curl https://transfer.sh/<hash>/<file_name>.gpg | gpg -o- > <file_name>

[Tri]

Is this safe I upload my .env file to transfer.sh ..?

[Andre Miras]

Depends what you mean by safe @GofyandKitty, but you can always encrypt it

[Roel]

How do i put user@mylocalmachine using my laptop local machine? :D

[Zuabi]

transfer.sh does not seem to work right now. file.io seems to be an alternative

[Ged Flod]

Google : Get my IP copy your IP and replace mylocalmiachine by this IP , user by your laptop username

[Ged Flod]

By i got kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host ERROR