In Order to use Heroku from local PHP server, it must be ssl enabled. Dcoker file contains all needed configuration to spin off self signed ssl PHP server with Postgres extension.

1. Install Docker
2. Clone this repository on your local system
3. Create an application in Heroku and enable Postgres SQL addon
4. Copy DataBase_URL config variable from Settings section of your Heroku app
5. Update $dbconn variable in index.php file as by copied value. Make sure to extract host, port, dbname, user & password.
6. Run below command in terminal so that docker can install all the dependencies

docker-compose build

7. Now start docker using below command

docker-compose up

After you run the command above you should be able to access http://localhost and https://localhost

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