Heroku PHP app crash bash: vendor/bin/heroku-php-a

Question

I'm not very good with Heroku setup

I'm trying to put online an app in PHP (with Code Igniter) but it doesn't work well. Here is the error :

Heroku PHP app crash bash: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2: No such file or directory 

index.php is in root folder. Vendor directory also in root folder composer made his job In procfile :

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2

And in my index.php:

require('vendor/autoload.php');

In the past I used the boot.sh way, so I'm not comfortable with the new way. I followed this tutorial https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php#introduction

I think I missed something obvious. But I don't know what. Thank you

Answer 1

Did you try to remove your procfile and add the base composer.json

Answer 2

My solution was to add the code below to composer.json.

"require-dev": {
    "heroku/heroku-buildpack-php" : "dev-master"
}

Then run composer update.

Answer 3

Your composer.json likely re-defines the bin-dir setting to something other than vendor/bin. Run composer config bin-dir to see what it is (or look at your composer.json's config section, and adjust the path to heroku-php-apache2 in your Procfile accordingly.

You can also just change the Procfile to automatically read the right value:

web: $(composer config bin-dir)/heroku-php-apache2

The notes at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/php-support#web-servers also mention this bin-dir caveat.

Answer 4

Thanks To David, here is the answer :

You're using the legacy version of the buildpack - your app has BUILDPACK_URL set to https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php.git#legacy. Run heroku config:unset BUILDPACK_URL and push an empty change (git commit -m "new buildpack" --allow-empty will do).

Because I Copy/pasted old vars from an old project (> 1 year) using boot.sh

There was BUILDPACK_URL which was the bad URL. No need to put it now.

Thanks dzuelke !

Answer 5

In addition to following the steps exactly as described here :

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-laravel

I had to remove .env from gitignore and also set

APP_KEY generated using

php artisan key:generate --show

to .env

in order for this to work.