# Problems with installing discourse on heroku(mostly a redis error)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-installing-discourse-on-heroku-mostly-a-redis-error/28063>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [29. April 2015 um 04:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-installing-discourse-on-heroku-mostly-a-redis-error/28063 "2015-04-29T04:29:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [29. April 2015 um 04:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-with-installing-discourse-on-heroku-mostly-a-redis-error/28063/2 "2015-04-29T04:44:12Z")

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Heroku is not a supported setup and until we figure out a properly supported mechanism of doing uploads it can not be. Use digital ocean / linode or any other vps, it is supported.

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