Heroku: "save" wipes my content

[zakgreene]

I've just deployed my site to Heroku. Works fine locally, but every time I save any page, from any account, all of the content on the page clears. The main reason I ported the site to Kirby 2 was actually because this site had quite a few issues on Heroku using Kirby 1.

I searched and found this Gist: https://gist.github.com/bastianallgeier/3919312 but am unclear about the php/mbstring part. Where do I find that and how do I add it to Heroku's PHP install?

I'd really like to keep using Kirby but these Heroku issues are a dealbreaker. Surprised no one else has encountered this.

The site is http://riffle-kirby2.herokuapp.com To log into the panel, I've created an account with the username 'test' and password 'test.' Feel free to try this — this isn't a production site.

[zakgreene]

I've tried a clean install from the starterkit — same problem. http://quiet-beyond-6605.herokuapp.com/

[zakgreene]

Sorry, it seems this was more of a Heroku issue than a Kirby issue, but in case others are running into it, I've solved it by using a different PHP/Apache buildpack. Here's the buildpack I'm using: https://github.com/winglian/heroku-buildpack-php

Just set BUILDPACK_URL to that URL, and WWWROOT to "/" in the Heroku config variables.

[ldamon]

It looks like this buildpack is no longer being maintained. https://github.com/winglian/heroku-buildpack-php/issues/7

Do you have any other recommendations for buildpacks? @zakgreene

[OscarGodson]

Looking for something like this too. I'd love to use Heroku but I'm not sure how to leave the content in place

[zakgreene]

It turned out that buildpack didn't actually solve the problem at all, it was just slower to reset the .txt files to the original Git committed version. Heroku doesn't allow files in the codebase to be altered dynamically that way, so the Kirby Panel really isn't really compatible with Heroku, unfortunately.