Easy (and sensibly separated) composer-ised install of wordpress for deployment to Heroku
I've included the plugin tantan-s3-cloudfront to allow uploading assets outside of Heroku's read-only filesystem. This will require an Amazon S3 bucket and settings on the Admin panel. That's beyond the scope of this document, but I might be persuaded to write a wiki page :-)
I used ideas from
- roots.io (I really like their attempt to make Wordpress behave like a 12-factor app)
- mhoofman/wordpress-heroku
I very much liked the approach taken with roots/bedrock, but it was a little more complex than I was looking for
git clone https://github.com/andypalmer/easy-wordpress.git my-new-wordpress
cd my-new-wordpress
heroku apps:create my-new-wordpress
heroku addons:add cleardb:ignite
heroku config:add DATABASE_URL=`heroku config:get CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL`
git push heroku master
heroku open
Go through the installation process. When complete, log into the site, click on Settings and remove the trailing /wp from Site Address
The free plan for ClearDB is limited to 5MB, which is quite small. After you've tested the install, you'll probably want to upgrade your plan or use a different MySQL provider
We haven't set any salt values, so Wordpress will generate some for us. These might not be as secure as the salts from the API
I've modified the wp-config.php to pick up the majority of the settings from the environment. Have a look at wp-config.php
Some interesting ones to play with are the salt values (see warning above) and TABLE_PREFIX which lets you have multiple installations in the same database