WordPress Heroku

This project is a template for installing and running WordPress on Heroku. The repository comes bundled with PostgreSQL for WordPress and WP Read-Only.

Installation

Clone the repository from Github

$ git clone git://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku.git

With the Heroku gem, create your app

$ cd wordpress-heroku
$ heroku create
Creating strange-turtle-1234... done, stack is cedar
http://strange-turtle-1234.herokuapp.com/ | [email protected]:strange-turtle-1234.git
Git remote heroku added

Add a database to your app

$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
Adding heroku-postgresql:dev to strange-turtle-1234... done, v2 (free)
Attached as HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR
Database has been created and is available
Use `heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql:dev` to view documentation

Promote the database (replace COLOR with the color name from the above output)

$ heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR
Promoting HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR to DATABASE_URL... done

Add the ability to send email (i.e. Password Resets etc)

$ heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
Adding sendgrid:starter on your-app... done, v14 (free)
Use `heroku addons:docs sendgrid` to view documentation.

Create a new branch for any configuration/setup changes needed

$ git checkout -b production

Store unique keys and salts in Heroku environment variables. Wordpress can provide random values here.

heroku config:set AUTH_KEY='put your unique phrase here' \
  SECURE_AUTH_KEY='put your unique phrase here' \
  LOGGED_IN_KEY='put your unique phrase here' \
  NONCE_KEY='put your unique phrase here' \
  AUTH_SALT='put your unique phrase here' \
  SECURE_AUTH_SALT='put your unique phrase here' \
  LOGGED_IN_SALT='put your unique phrase here' \
  NONCE_SALT='put your unique phrase here'

Deploy to Heroku

$ git push heroku production:master
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> PHP app detected
-----> Bundling Apache v2.2.22
-----> Bundling PHP v5.3.10
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> (none)
       Default types for PHP   -> web
-----> Compiled slug size is 13.8MB
-----> Launcing... done, v5
       http://strange-turtle-1234.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku

To git@heroku:strange-turtle-1234.git
  * [new branch]    production -> master

After deployment WordPress has a few more steps to setup and thats it!

Usage

Because a file cannot be written to Heroku's file system, updating and installing plugins or themes should be done locally and then pushed to Heroku.

Updating

Updating your WordPress version is just a matter of merging the updates into the branch created from the installation.

$ git pull # Get the latest

Using the same branch name from our installation:

$ git checkout production
$ git merge master # Merge latest
$ git push heroku production:master

WordPress needs to update the database. After push, navigate to:

http://your-app-url.herokuapp.com/wp-admin

WordPress will prompt for updating the database. After that you'll be good to go.

Deployment optimisation

If you have files that you want tracked in your repo, but do not need deploying (for example, *.md, *.pdf, *.zip). Then add path or linux file match to the .slugignore file & these will not be deployed.

Examples:

path/to/ignore/
bin/
*.md
*.pdf
*.zip

Wiki

• Custom Domains
• Media Uploads
• Postgres Database Syncing
• [Setting Up a Local Environment on Linux (Apache)](https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku/wiki/Setting-Up-a-Local-Environment-on-Linux-(Apache\))
• Setting Up a Local Environment on Mac OS X
• More...