So I checked out Heroku yesterday after the official support for PHP announcement. I pushed up a basic install of Laravel 4.1 to a new free account. However, if you just create your repo, set up Laravel, and do a git push origin master , your webroot will be the project root, not /public. After reading about “buildpacks”, etc., I found out that all you need to do is create an empty file in the project root named “Procfile” and add:web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public to it (assuming you are using Apache). I saw something else showing custom composer.json settings for heroku that defined the webroot, but I couldn’t get that to work.