Impossible to set "root": "/"

[Kevin Cooper]

I'd hypothetically like to serve all my assets statically; there's nothing private here.

Setting "root": "/" causes everything to mysteriously 404 with no explanation.

[Marcin Goscicki]

I had the same issue recently. Try "root": "." instead - worked for me.

[Thanh Nhan]

if the root is . or /, I dont think you need this build pack. You can try another way like this:
https://gist.github.com/wh1tney/2ad13aa5fbdd83f6a489

[Ed Morley]

Hi

This buildpack is now deprecated and we are recommending people move the more actively maintained heroku-buildpack-nginx. For migration advice see here.

As such, I'm closing this issue out since we won't be making further changes to this buildpack.