Heroku Client

Install BitNami AMP/APP stacks

BitNami AMP/APP stacks are available for download at BitNami.com page. Choose the installer apropriate for your operating system and architecture. Note that the version could be different. The Heroku client was included in AMP/APP stacks since 5.4.11-1 version.

To begin the installation process, double-click on that file and continue with the installation process. Learn more about the LAMP stack and the bundled component versions.

Configure Heroku Client

Before you continue with this guide, you need to sign up for the Heroku account.

You will need a ssh key to be able to deploy your application to Heroku. If you already have a SSH key, you can add it in the Heroku dashboard. If you do not have one or if you want to generate a new one only for Heroku, you can create it.

Log in the BitNami AMP/APP console. It depends on the platform.

On Linux:

$ cd /home/user/lampstack-version
$ ./use_lampstack

On Windows:

There is a shortcut in Start -> BitNami WAMP Stack ->"UseBitNami WAMP Stack"

On OS X:

Open a Terminal and type the following:

hostname:~ user$ cd /Applications/mampstack-version
hostname:~ user$ ./use_mampstack

Configure your Heroku client and bind it to your Heroku account executing the following command:

$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: your_email@example.com
Password (typing will be hidden): 
Found existing public key: /home/user_name/.ssh/my-heroku-key-rsa.pub
Uploading SSH public key /home/user_name/.ssh/my-heroku-key-rsa.pub... done
Authentication successful.

You can upload your SSH key or you can create a new one:

$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: your_email@example.com
Password (typing will be hidden):
Could not find an existing public key.
Would you like to generate one? [Yn]
Generating new SSH public key.
Uploading ssh public key /home/user_name/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Check if everything works properly listing apps already running in your Heroku account:

$ heroku apps
You have no apps.

Create a sample PHP application

BitNami AMP/APP stacks ship a sample project that you can deploy in Heroku. This sample application could be accessible from the browser in your exising AMP/APP stack. The application files are in the "/installdir/apps/heroku/htdocs" folder.

To enable the Heroku sample application in your current installation, it is only necessary to uncomment the following line at the bottom of the Apache configuration file:

/installdir/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

...
Include /installdir/apps/heroku/conf/heroku.conf

Once you enabled it, restart the Apache server from the Manager graphical application or from the command line (on OS X or Linux):

$ cd installdir
$ ./ctlscript.sh restart apache

You can see now the sample heroku application in your browser at http://your_domain/heroku or http://your_domain:8080/heroku

If it does not work, check the Apache log file to see if there was any error.

Now, it is necessary to setup the git repository for your application:

$ cd installdir/apps/heroku/htdocs
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /installdir/apps/heroku/htdocs/.git/
$ git config --global user.email your_email@example.com
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "My PHP app first commit" .
[master (root-commit) 2df113f] my PHP app first commit
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 index.php

Create a new Heroku application and deploy your code:

$ heroku create
Creating gentle-temple-3910... done, stack is cedar
http://gentle-temple-3910.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:gentle-temple-3910.git
Git remote heroku added

This command returns the server name, in this case "gentle-temple-3910.herokuapp.com".

$ git push heroku master
The authenticity of host 'heroku.com (50.19.85.132)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 8b:48:5e:67:0e:c9:16:47:32:f2:87:0c:1f:c8:60:ad.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'heroku.com,50.19.85.132' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 250 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
-----> PHP app detected
-----> Bundling Apache version 2.2.22
-----> Bundling PHP version 5.3.10
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> (none)
       Default types for PHP   -> web
-----> Compiled slug size: 9.5MB
-----> Launching... done, v4
       http://gentle-temple-3910.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

To git@heroku.com:gentle-temple-3910.git
* [new branch]      master -> master

Visit your application at the domain that heroku returns gentle-temple-3910.herokuapp.com. You can change this domain name from the Heroku dashboard.
 

$ echo "hello world" > test.txt
$ curl http://localhost:8080/heroku/test.txt
hello world

$ git add test.txt
$ git commit -m 'adding test.txt'
[master 522ec8a] adding test.txt
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 test.txt

$ git push heroku master
Counting objects: 4, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 295 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
-----> PHP app detected
-----> Bundling Apache version 2.2.22
-----> Bundling PHP version 5.3.10
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> (none)
       Default types for PHP   -> web
-----> Compiled slug size: 9.5MB
-----> Launching... done, v5
       http://gentle-temple-3910.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

To git@heroku.com:gentle-temple-3910.git
   2df113f..522ec8a  master -> master

$ curl http://gentle-temple-3910.herokuapp.com/test.txt
hello world