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I'm not very good with Heroku setup

I'm trying to put online an app in PHP (with Code Igniter) but it doesn't work well. Here is the error :

Heroku PHP app crash bash: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2: No such file or directory

index.php is in root folder. Vendor directory also in root folder composer made his job In procfile : 

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2

And in my index.php:

require('vendor/autoload.php');

In the past I used the boot.sh way, so I'm not comfortable with the new way. I followed this tutorial https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php#introduction

I think I missed something obvious. But I don't know what. Thank you

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  • wanted to ask, where did you write this require('vendor/autoload.php'); ?? I opened the index.php file but there doesnt seem like a place to write this Commented Feb 6, 2016 at 22:43

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Your composer.json likely re-defines the bin-dir setting to something other than vendor/bin. Run composer config bin-dir to see what it is (or look at your composer.json's config section, and adjust the path to heroku-php-apache2 in your Procfile accordingly.

You can also just change the Procfile to automatically read the right value:

web: $(composer config bin-dir)/heroku-php-apache2

The notes at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/php-support#web-servers also mention this bin-dir caveat.

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Thank you but the bin-dir is already set to : ➜ app git:(master) composer config bin-dir vendor/bin there is nothing more in composer than this : { "require" : { "rfd/imagemagick": "~1.1" }, "require-dev": { "heroku/heroku-buildpack-php": "*" } }
And heroku config doesn't show a BUILDPACK_URL, right? If it does, you're using some other (likely third party) buildpack... so remove it and push again.
The web: $(composer config bin-dir)/heroku-php-apache2 public/ command execution works particularly well. Even though when I executed the composer config bin-dir command I received vendor/bin, my app was repetitively crashing. But then I updated the Procfile with the above command and all worked like magic. This was probably because my .gitignore file contained /vendor in it, I'm not sure though. Any idea?
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My solution was to add the code below to composer.json.

"require-dev": {
    "heroku/heroku-buildpack-php" : "dev-master"
}

Then run composer update.

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Did you try to remove your procfile and add the base composer.json

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Thanks To David, here is the answer :

You're using the legacy version of the buildpack - your app has BUILDPACK_URL set to https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php.git#legacy. Run heroku config:unset BUILDPACK_URL and push an empty change (git commit -m "new buildpack" --allow-empty will do).

Because I Copy/pasted old vars from an old project (> 1 year) using boot.sh

There was BUILDPACK_URL which was the bad URL. No need to put it now.

Thanks dzuelke !

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In addition to following the steps exactly as described here :

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-laravel

I had to remove .env from gitignore and also set

APP_KEY generated using

php artisan key:generate --show

to .env

in order for this to work.

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For your app key I get output like base64:XXXXXXXXXX=. Do you include the "base64:" portion in you .env file?
@ConnorLeech Yes, you do include the "base64:" portion. This feature lets us store an application key with special characters inside the .env file. Laravel decodes it when reading the value of the key.

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