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Why is Procfile not recognised by Heroku?

I'm trying to deploy a flask app to heroku, but I keep on getting the error: Scaling dynos... ! ▸ Couldn't find that process type (web). whenever I try to run heroku ps:scale web=1.

However, when I run heroku ps:scale, it tells me that I need to Upload a Procfile to add process types.

I do have a Procfile located in my root directory, and it is capitalised and doesn't have any file extensions. I have tried deleting and recreating the Procfile, but this hasn't produced any results.

How do I get Heroku to recognise my Procfile?

Here is what I've been trying to do:
ubuntu terminal

Solution

  • I had to create a new git repo and heroku app, and copy the code over for it to work.