Manual setup

khaqanerus

Hello, I'm trying to install Vanilla on Heroku. Everything seemed to work fine, but the next day when I opened the forum, it showed the installation page again. It seems like the config.php file isn't getting saved. Indeed, if I try doing the setup and checking the filesystem immediately after, there is no file at conf/config.php.

This is probably a Heroku issue preventing the file from being saved, but is it possible to do the setup manually? Could someone possibly post a sample of their config.php file (with private details removed of course)?

khaqanerus

Ok, I solved the problem by inserting

<?php echo file_get_contents("conf/config.php"); ?>

at the top of index.php and copying the config file right after setup. (It turns out that it was saving fine, but with Heroku if you open a bash shell, that's a separate dyno from the running app.)

x00

I think that is the nature of heroku. It is based on release. Have you included the .gitignore file?

x00

@khaqanerus said:
Ok, I solved the problem by inserting

<?php echo file_get_contents("conf/config.php"); ?>

at the top of index.php and copying the config file right after setup. (It turns out that it was saving fine, but with Heroku if you open a bash shell, that's a separate dyno from the running app.)

This doesn't sound like a satisfactory solution, as that file is changed all the time.

Gutem

I finished an installation rigth now on Heroku.
Here is my roadmap:
$ mkdir 'folder'
$ cd 'folder'
$ git init
$ heroku create 'name'

-Adds the MySQL option to the Heroku app's config
$ heroku addons:add cleardb:ignite

-See the URLs for your new databases
$ heroku config

-Replace the 'info' with the URL from CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL
$ heroku config:add DATABASE_URL='info'

Downloaded and unzip the Vanilla in the folder created b4.
Download, Install and run XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP
Go to localhost and install Vanilla locally using the info from 'heroku config'
'heroku config' info is in this format: 'user':'pass'@'host'/'db_name'
Remove the "conf/config.php" from .gitignore
$ 'git add .' and 'git commit -m "'message"'
$ 'git push 'remote' master'

My deploy still in test. Let's see if gonna work.

hbf

what is the benefit of heroku?

lifeisfoo

Is an easy to setup scalable environment. Grows as you want with one click (and obviously $$$).

hbf

so its a platform as a service environment. gotcha. cloud services always come with a price. $$ and complication. thanks for posing your experience for others to learn from.