Deploying from a ZIP

Any supported project can be deployed from a ZIP: a plain HTML site, a React or Vue app, a Next.js, Python, PHP or Rails app. See Supported frameworks.

1. Find your project folder

   It's the folder with files such as index.html, package.json, requirements.txt or composer.json directly inside it.

2. Leave out what we install ourselves

   Delete (or don't include) node_modules, .venv, vendor, build output such as dist, and the .git folder. We install dependencies and build your project during every deployment, and these folders make the ZIP much bigger.

3. Compress it

   On a Mac, right-click the folder and choose Compress. On Windows, right-click it and choose Send to → Compressed (zipped) folder. Zipping the folder itself is fine: if everything is inside one top folder, we look inside it.

1. Upload the ZIP

   In your dashboard, click Host a website, choose Upload a ZIP and pick your file.

2. Check what we found

   ProHostiva builds your project in a sandbox and shows whether it's ready, with anything to fix. You can carry on without waiting for it.

3. Publish

   Name the website, choose its address and click Publish website. To put a new version online later, use Upload a new version in the Publish panel on the website's page.

4. Add environment variables, if your project needs them

   API keys, database addresses and similar settings go in Developer settings → Environment variables. Tick Secret for anything private.

5. Publish

   Click Publish. The deployment log shows each step: detecting, building, starting and checking your app. When it says Deployment successful, click Open website.

Make your changes, create a new ZIP, and upload it the same way. The new version replaces the old one only once it has built and started successfully; until then, and if anything fails, visitors keep seeing the current version.

Changing your site often? Deploying from GitHub saves you the zipping: push your changes and click Publish.

• The ZIP can be up to 50 MB.
• Unpacked, it can hold up to 5,000 files and 200 MB.
• Symbolic links and files with unusual paths are refused, for the safety of every site on the platform.