Heroku: getting started with PHP

So I started out with the Getting Started for PHP on the Heroku site in my efforts to get into the cloud.

The step-by-step guide on the Heroku site is fairly straight forward. I made the following notes (I am using Windows 10):

1. You will need Composer – I used the Composer-Setup.exe – you will need to restart PowerShell
2. and PostgreSQL: http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#windows
3. Open Windows PowerShell:
4. I got this error trying to push changes to heroku: ERROR: File ‘/composer.phar’ isn’t executable; please ‘chmod +x’!
5. I tried the following PowerShell commands:
   • attrib +x composer.pha
   • attrib +S composer.phar
   • attrib -a composer.phar
   • I also tried right-click Properties Security changing the permission on the file
6. I finally found this solution – or rather workaround – on StackOverflow:

   git add .
   git commit -m 'composer.phar removed'
   git push heroku master

However, as soon as I started trying to do more stuff with my Hello World app, I came unstuck, as it uses a whole heap of doohickies that I don’t work with, for instance it uses the Symfony framework.

I personally prefer to start from a blank canvas as such without the additional bumf, using vanilla PHP. Here is my very simple “Hello World”:

1. I had renamed my app: heroku apps:rename foxbeefly
2. I deleted my app: heroku apps:destroy foxbeefly
3. To confirm deletion: heroku apps
4. I created a new app on Heroku: foxbeefly
5. I created new dir in my htdocs: foxbeefly
6. I initialised the git repo: git init
7. created the repo: heroku git:remote -a foxbeefly
8. I created a simple index.php
9. I added my file to the repo: git add .
10. I commited: git commit -m "Initial commit of new app"
11. push changes: git push heroku master
12. Opened my new app: heroku open and your app should open in your default browser
13. If you go to you dashboard you will now see some resources
14. Use heroku logs --tail to look for any errors