Apache+PHP build pack

This is a build pack bundling PHP and Apache for Heroku apps.

Configuration

The config files are bundled with the build pack itself:

• conf/httpd.conf
• conf/php.ini

Apache .htaccess files

The apache configuration has a setting, AccessFileName, that tells the web server the name of the override file. This is usually set to ".htaccess". This build pack will use the ACCESSFILENAME environment variable to determine the name of the override files. We do this to follow our normal pattern of different override files for each environment in the development process (e.g. Production, Staging, Development).

The default value is .htaccess

Pre-compiling binaries

# apache
mkdir /app
wget http://apache.cyberuse.com//httpd/httpd-2.2.19.tar.gz
tar xvzf httpd-2.2.19.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.19
./configure --prefix=/app/apache --enable-rewrite
make
make install
cd ..

# php
wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.3.6.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror 
mv mirror php.tar.gz
tar xzvf php.tar.gz
cd php-5.3.6/
./configure --prefix=/app/php --with-apxs2=/app/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-pdo-mysql --with-pgsql --with-pdo-pgsql --with-iconv --with-gd --with-curl=/usr/lib --with-config-file-path=/app/php --enable-soap=shared --with-openssl
make
make install
cd ..

# php extensions
mkdir /app/php/ext
cp /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15 /app/php/ext/

# pear
apt-get install php5-dev php-pear
pear config-set php_dir /app/php
pecl install apc
mkdir /app/php/include/php/ext/apc
cp /usr/lib/php5/20060613/apc.so /app/php/ext/
cp /usr/include/php5/ext/apc/apc_serializer.h /app/php/include/php/ext/apc/


# package
cd /app
echo '2.2.19' > apache/VERSION
tar -zcvf apache.tar.gz apache
echo '5.3.6' > php/VERSION
tar -zcvf php.tar.gz php

Hacking

To change this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then create a test app with --buildpack and push to it.

Meta

Created by Pedro Belo. Many thanks to Keith Rarick for the help with assorted Unix topics :)