heroku push rejected no cedar-supported app detected php - index.php present

Question

I am trying to push my php app to Heroku and get the below error.

Heroku receiving push ! Heroku push rejected, no Cedar-supported app detected.

I have read through all the previous posts which said that the PHP app should have a index.php in the root folder...which i do. When i do a "git ls-files" i get the index.php listed (with the name in lowercase).

steps i have performed so far are. 1. i have an application created on Heroku - stack:Cedar 2. git add the relevant files 3. git commit with a comment 4. git push heroku master -- this guy gives me the error.

git ls-files lists a file "index.php".

What am i missing this time?

Answer 1

I'm just starting out with Heroku and was encountering the same problem. Below is a description of what I did wrong.

Procfile

Make sure that the following statement is included in your Procfile:

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 path/to/web/

Where path/to/web/ is the relative path to the directory that you want to publicly expose on the web. Make sure that the public directory contains an index.php file (e.g. path/to/web/index.php).

composer.json

In your composer.json directory (which should be in the base directory of the repository) make sure to include the Heroku PHP buildpack.

{
  "require": {

  },
  "require-dev": {
    "heroku/heroku-buildpack-php": "*"
  }
}

If this statement was missing, then run composer update (./composer.phar update for me, because I downloaded composer and placed it in the base directory of my repository) so that Composer will fetch the package and install it into your vendor directory.

Answer 2

the issue was with an incorrect/incomplete .git directory. Deleting the old one and recreating it (git init) solved the problem.