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How to make any DIRECTORY WRITABLE , on heroku ??

because I make an app on facebook , with heroku hosting but there is some DIRECTORY should be WRITABLE to run my app .

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Heroku doesn't allow you to write directly to the filesystem. It's because of the way they deploy each app as a self-contained 'slug'. If you want to write files you'll need to use something like Amazon's S3 or serialize the data and save it to the database.

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thank you very much –  user1992517 Feb 22 '13 at 12:45
Please accept the answer if it was helpful. :) –  Richard Brown Feb 22 '13 at 12:48
ok :):):):):):):):) –  user1992517 Feb 23 '13 at 7:40
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