Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by lstoll » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 4:02 PM UTC

Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
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Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by gee_totes » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it).

I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by lstoll » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 4:35 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #2

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).

There is, it's just not officially supported: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php . Github lists it as having 82 forks, so people are definitely playing around with this.

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by pnathan » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

I'd like to point out a Common Lisp buildpack. I've used a fork of it and it's pretty spiffy. (Now if I only knew a simple app I could give people. :-) )

https://github.com/mtravers/heroku-buildpack-cl

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by sync » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:10 PM UTC

lstoll wrote: post #3

gee_totes wrote: post #2

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).

There is, it's just not officially supported: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php . Github lists it as having 82 forks, so people are definitely playing around with this.

Yep. You can even run Wordpress with our fork: https://github.com/Americastestkitchen/heroku-wordpress-php/

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by ericcholis » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #2

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).

I was disappointed by Heroku's lack of PHP support while speccing a recent project.

Happy to see that there is "unofficial" support for it at the moment. Competition is a good thing!

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by ridruejo » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

sync wrote: post #5

lstoll wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is, it's just not officially supported: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php . Github lists it as having 82 forks, so people are definitely playing around with this.

Yep. You can even run Wordpress with our fork: https://github.com/Americastestkitchen/heroku-wordpress-php/

How do you deal with uploaded files/persistent storage?

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by rbxbx » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

gee_totes wrote: post #2

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).

I've heard good things about http://www.appfog.com/ who used to specialize in heroku-esque PHP deployments. Perhaps they'd be worth checking out.

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by stevencorona » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

lstoll wrote: post #3

gee_totes wrote: post #2

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).

There is, it's just not officially supported: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php . Github lists it as having 82 forks, so people are definitely playing around with this.

Surprised it's using mod_php instead of PHP-FPM

Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

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Post by sync » Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 5:30 PM UTC

ridruejo wrote: post #7

sync wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. You can even run Wordpress with our fork: https://github.com/Americastestkitchen/heroku-wordpress-php/

How do you deal with uploaded files/persistent storage?

S3. Ignore the scary warning, this plugin works great for us: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-s3/