Publish Wordpress with Heroku app

March 01, 2016

1. Download Wordpress

Download wordpress to local.

curl -sS https://wordpress.org/latest.zip > wordpress.zip // if cannot
unzip wordpress.zip
cd wordpress
touch Procfile
touch composer.json
touch ngnix.conf
mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

2. Configuration

Add below line to Procfile contains config parameter.

web: vendor/bin/heroku-hhvm-nginx -C nginx.conf

Add to composer.json that

{
    "name": "can/heroku-wp",
    "description": "A template for installing and running WordPress on Heroku",
    "license": "MIT",
    "repositories":{
      "packagist":{
            "type":"composer",
            "url":"http://wpackagist.org"
        }
    },
    "require": {
        "hhvm": "~3.2"
    },
    "extra": {
        "heroku": {
            "php-config": \[
                "post\_max\_size=200M"
            \],
            "nginx-includes": \["nginx.conf"\]
        }
    }
}

And ngnix.conf

location / { index index.php index.html index.htm; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args; }

And finally wp-config.php

// \*\* MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host \*\* //
$url = parse\_url(getenv('DATABASE\_URL') ? getenv('DATABASE\_URL') : getenv('CLEARDB\_DATABASE\_URL'));

/\*\* The name of the database for WordPress \*/
define('DB\_NAME', trim($url\['path'\], '/'));

/\*\* MySQL database username \*/
define('DB\_USER', $url\['user'\]);

/\*\* MySQL database password \*/
define('DB\_PASSWORD', $url\['pass'\]);

/\*\* MySQL hostname \*/
define('DB\_HOST', $url\['host'\]);

/\*\* Database Charset to use in creating database tables. \*/
define('DB\_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/\*\* The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. \*/
define('DB\_COLLATE', '');

 

define('AUTH\_KEY',         getenv('AUTH\_KEY'));
define('SECURE\_AUTH\_KEY',  getenv('SECURE\_AUTH\_KEY'));
define('LOGGED\_IN\_KEY',    getenv('LOGGED\_IN\_KEY'));
define('NONCE\_KEY',        getenv('NONCE\_KEY'));
define('AUTH\_SALT',        getenv('AUTH\_SALT'));
define('SECURE\_AUTH\_SALT', getenv('SECURE\_AUTH\_SALT'));
define('LOGGED\_IN\_SALT',   getenv('LOGGED\_IN\_SALT'));
define('NONCE\_SALT',       getenv('NONCE\_SALT'));

3. Push & Deploy

Git init & attach addon

composer update --ignore-platform-reqs #generated composer.lock file

git init
git add . 
git commit -m "initial commit"
heroku create # do not forget login with "heroku login" command
heroku addons:create cleardb
heroku addons:create sendgrid

Add env variables

heroku config:set AUTH\_KEY\=''
heroku config:set SECURE\_AUTH\_KEY\=''
heroku config:set LOGGED\_IN\_KEY\=''
heroku config:set NONCE\_KEY\=''
heroku config:set AUTH\_SALT\=''
heroku config:set SECURE\_AUTH\_SALT\=''
heroku config:set LOGGED\_IN\_SALT\=''
heroku config:set NONCE\_SALT\=''

Push & open your page

git push heroku master # it will check & deploy your code 
heroku open # it will open page on browser

And your wordpress is ready !!!

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I imporved and addded some tips K.Sylvestre’s blog post and create this post.