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Rose Perrone
Rose Perrone

Reputation: 63586

Can I push to Heroku using a non-Cedar-supported app?

My app only uses PHP and SQLite.

I get this error:

Heroku push rejected, no Cedar-supported app detected

Upvotes: 1

Views: 194

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 79793

You should be a able to use PHP, there is a PHP buildpack — although it’s not very well documented on the Heroku site. Looking at its detect script, it is checking for an index.php file. Does your app have one? If not you’ll need to create one, if only so that it’ll be detected as a PHP app.

If your app still isn’t being detected as a PHP app, you could try explicitly specifying the buildpack to use with a config var:

$ heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php

A bigger problem is that you won’t be able to use SQLite on Heroku. Even if you were to create your own buildpack that added the relevant SQLite libraries, the read-only filesystem would mean it’s of little use. You should look into using Postgres (or possibly MySQL using an add-on).

Upvotes: 3

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