unable to parse Procfile

Question

I am trying to deploy an Heroku app.

I must be doing something wrong with the Procfile. When I run foreman check I get this error.

ERROR: no processes defined

I get pretty much the same thing when deploying on Heroku

-----> Building runtime environment
-----> Discovering process types

 !     Push failed: cannot parse Procfile.

The Procfile looks like this

web: node app.js

What did I miss?

update I re-did all from the start, It works properly now. I think I might have issue with Unix line ending

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '13 at 05:21

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Just encounter "Push failed: cannot parse Procfile." on Windows. I can conclude that It IS "Windows-file format" problem, NOT the context of file itself.

make sure to create a clean file, maybe use Notepad++ or other advanced editor to check the file type.

answered Dec 16 '13 at 05:21

ruxming

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Thank you! I was going crazy trying to figure this out. I re-created the file in Notepad++ and that solved the issue! – Ace Hyzer Mar 28 '14 at 06:45

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '19 at 12:03

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save as a utf-8 character file, rather than what it is - a utf 16 character file. this is a confirmed fix.

answered Dec 21 '19 at 12:03

Brad Baum

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this one was the one helping me, the other top comment didn''t explain what kind of file character should we used – Ricky Reza Muhammad Feb 14 '21 at 05:31

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 05 '17 at 10:08

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Open your current Procfile with notepad. Create a new Procfile.txt and paste the content of your original Procfile . Save your Procfile and replace it with your new Procfile

answered Feb 05 '17 at 10:08

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This fixed it for me on Windows 10 PowerShell – Omar Gonzalez Apr 29 '17 at 20:44

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 07 '21 at 20:49

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I had the same issue, using VSCode I changed file to UTF-8 (bottom right), saved file and pushed it - and it was successful.

answered Sep 07 '21 at 20:49

Pjotrs Osnovskis

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 28 '21 at 20:50

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Is your Procfile in the root of your project? Is it spelled with a capital P? Does it have unix line endings?

edited Jan 28 '21 at 20:50

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answered Nov 08 '13 at 17:12

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Yes it's in the root. it's correctly spelled, and git track the correct spelling. I think I will got with the unix line endings because I am on windows. – platane Nov 08 '13 at 23:28

shashwatkap1 · Answer 6 · 2021-06-28T14:06:20.090

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It is happening due to a different encoding type in your Procfile.

Open your Procfile in a text editor, preferably, Notepad.
Save the file and in the encoding option, change the encoding to UTF-8 (default is UTF-16).
Replace your current Procfile with this file in the root folder of your project and remove the .txt extension.

Push your code again and you'll be good to go!

edited Jun 28 '21 at 14:06

answered Jun 15 '21 at 09:33

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 07 '22 at 15:47

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Create Procfile using the following command,

echo web: gunicorn app:app > Procfile

answered Sep 07 '22 at 15:47

Codemaker2015

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