Kirby on Heroku

How to deploy Kirby CMS on Heroku cloud platform

Notes

• site must be at root level
  • todo: try subdirectory

Install Heroku

• Download Heroku pkg
• RUN heroku --version
• RUN heroku login

Setup composer

• RUN git init/clone
• RUN composer init
  • require
  • php
  • ext-mbstring (latest *)
  • ext-curl (latest *)
• RUN composer update
• RUN echo "web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2" >> Procfile
• Reference:
  • PHP Support
  • PHP Settings

Deploy to Heroku

• RUN heroku create
• RUN
  • git add --all
  • git commit --message ""
  • git push origin master
  • git push heroku master
• RUN heroku run bash # to inspect server

Heroku rename app

• RUN heroku apps:rename