# Accessing a Heroku Deployed App?

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/accessing-a-heroku-deployed-app/7568>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/accessing-a-heroku-deployed-app/7568 "2022-09-30T15:04:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tonypiom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/tonypiom/32/6013_2.png) [@tonypiom](https://community.fly.io/u/tonypiom)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/accessing-a-heroku-deployed-app/7568/1 "2022-09-30T15:04:09Z")

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We recently moved a heroku app over with the launcher and it was perfect. But I had expected since the flyctl lists the app I would be app to fetch the app back down with the .toml to then deploy changes etc… But I can’t see anyway to handle this?

Essentially creating a single versioned dead app?

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**Author:** ![fideloper-fly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/fideloper-fly/32/3834_2.png) [@fideloper-fly](https://community.fly.io/u/fideloper-fly)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/accessing-a-heroku-deployed-app/7568/2 "2022-09-30T15:41:09Z")

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Hi!

Thanks for trying out the forums! You’re coming from here, right?

> <https://twitter.com/tonypartridge/status/1575861491470770177?s=20&t=EYZ28J2qwMDnJrr2LOmjQQ>

The way we’d recommend trying first is to use `scp` to try to download some contents from the Fly VM

Specifically check out this answer from this thread: [SCP a file into a persistent volume - #2 by jerome](https://community.fly.io/t/scp-a-file-into-a-persistent-volume/2729/2)

That outlines connecting to the private network via wireguard (I know that’s sort of an annoying first step, but it’s worth having!)

Then running [`fly ssh issue`](https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/ssh-issue/) to get ssh access, and then you should be able to use `scp`

Check out the rest of that thread for some debugging tips if you hit issues. You should then be able to download the contents of the VM running there.

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**Author:** ![tonypiom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/tonypiom/32/6013_2.png) [@tonypiom](https://community.fly.io/u/tonypiom)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/accessing-a-heroku-deployed-app/7568/3 "2022-10-01T12:31:03Z")

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I sure am! Ok perfect, I’ll give it a whirl!