Installing OpenCart on Heroku

install.md

Installation

This gets OpenCart running enough that we can use the GUI Installer

1. Create Heroku project with ClearDB MySQL add-on
2. Download OpenCart sources
3. Move ./upload/* to top-level (those are the PHP site files)
4. Copy zlib.so into ./ext/zlib.so
5. Write extension = /app/www/ext/zlib.so into php.ini
6. Push
7. Open site

Self-installer

Visiting the site opens the installer, make sure the checks are all green and enter the database credentials for your heroku instance.

1. heroku config | grep DATABASE_URL
2. The format is mysql://user:password@host/database?params -> input these separately into Installer

This will populate the seed data into mysql and write out appropriate config.php and admin/config.php for connecting to said DB BUT those files are written on a Dyno which may or may not last.

Try to copy them down; if not, follow the next section.

Manual config

1. View ./install/cli_install.php
2. Find the sections that write out config.php and admin/config.php
3. Manually (and annoyingly) create those files yourself
4. Push

Check heroku logs, you should get a failure for createimagefromjpeg not existing. This is because the default buildpack builds PHP without jpeg support.

PHP + JPEG

1. heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL='https://github.com/thoughtbot/heroku-buildpack-php
2. Push

Site should work now.

Custom Build pack

If for some reason the above build pack is not around, here's more or less how it was created:

1. Fork heroku/heroku-buildpack-php on GitHub
2. Run the script from the README on your dyno, with the following differences:
3. Add --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir to PHP ./configure
4. Replace pushd with cd and popd with cd - (my dyno didn't have pushd/popd)
5. Copy the compiled sources somewhere
6. Update bin/compile to reference those sources
7. Update BUILDPACK_URL to be your repo

How to upload OpenCart sources ?
how to move ./upload/*
Please explain

using heroku CLI
git add -A

git commit -m "improvement"

git push origin master

where is zlib.so? and where is ./ext?

Copy zlib.so into ./ext/zlib.so
looks like that lib is not avail via that link but it can be compiled or at least downloaded and then copied to the described folder, right?