1. Deploy Laravel on Heroku

2. About Me
Eric Van Johnson
PHP Developer, Architect and an Organizer of SDPHP
● Twitter: @shocm
● IRC: @shocm

3. Laravel 101
We start with a standard Laravel deployment
And then a cd into our project directory

4. Unlock you lock
We want to remove ‘composer.lock’ from
.gitignore

5. Heroku Procfile
You can configure Heroku server by leveraging
a ‘Procfile’. We will use this to update our doc
root to point to our /public directory

6. Git’er Done
Next we initiate our Git repo and commit
some changes.

7. Use the --force
Your Laravel application will complain if it
doesn’t have a log file and it’s unable to
create one once deployed to Heroku. So we
will create it now and force add it to the repo

8. Commit to your choices in life
Now we can do a git commit of our project.

9. Heroku Time
You’ll need to have a Heroku account and have
the Heroku Toolbelt installed and configured.
Great place to get started:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php#introduction
We’ll flash forward past this

10. Spinning up Heroku
We create our Heroku instance and deploy our
repo to it.

11. Check out your awesome app
At this time we
have our basic
Laravel
Application
deployed and
can view it.

12. Add layers to the Application
Let’s update our routes, add a controller and add
a view like a normal application.
app/routes.php app/controllers/HelloController.php
app/views/hello/index.blade.php

13. Check out your awesome app
Commit, push to
Heroku and go
to the new
route.

14. Adding PostgreSQL to your app
Why PostgreSQL and not MySQL?
● Heroku doesn’t have ‘native’ MySQL support
● In Heroku world, PostgreSQL is a first class citizen.
● There is a solution that allows you to add a MySQL to your
Heroku app called ‘ClearDB’ addon if you really want it.
● Since we are using Laravel and Eloquent, we don’t actual
care what our datastore is.

15. Adding PostgreSQL (Part 2)
Adding PostgreSQL is as simple as running a command.

16. A peek at the config
Let’s see what was assigned to us

17. Modify start.php
We are going to edit bootstrap/start.php to better detect
environments

18. Create Heroku Configurations
Next we create configuration files specifically for Heroku at the
following path

19. Configure Database
app/config/heroku/database.php
Also be sure to update
app/config/database.php and define
PostgeSQL
● 'default' => 'pgsql',
Commit and push

20. Create APP_ENV Variable
Remember we are detecting which environment
we are in, in start.php using the variable
‘APP_ENV’. We will need to create and add that
variable to our Heroku environment.

21. Create a migration
Now we create a migration using the normal
Laravel commands.
Commit and Push

22. Run migration
After we push our new migration we need to run
the migration in the Heroku environment.

23. Check migration was successful

24. Enjoy Life
START CODING!