Have you ever wanted to install WordPress on Heroku? Well, now you can with a simple buildpack developed by MChung.
Wait a second you say – isn’t Heroku for Ruby applications? Ah, you must have missed out on the Celadon Cedar stack which makes this much easier to do. You can, as a developer, install and run any language or choice if you’d like.
Tada!
It’ll use the following stack:
nginx-1.3.11- Nginx for serving web content. Built specifically for Heroku. See compile options.php-5.4.11- PHP-FPM for process management and APC for caching opcodes. See compile options.wordpress-3.5.1- Downloaded directly from wordpress.org.MySQL- ClearDB for the MySQL backend.Sendgrid- Sendgrid for the email backend.MemCachier- MemCachier for the memcached backend.
Get the fork here and then you’ll be on your way with this buildpack.
If you need the robust instructions you can head over to his stylized landing page for the project here as well.
Thanks MChung for your service to the WordPress community! He’s looking to continue the work because there’s still much to do, especially with some of the performance benchmarks he’s seen:
94/100 Google Pagespeed
Webpage test
Blitz test
Here’s on his list of To-dos:
- Automate vendor upgrades. Make it easy to keep in sync with latest Nginx, PHP, and WordPress.
- End-users shouldn’t be able to do things that aren’t supported on Heroku. Write plugins to hide everything.
- Integrate New Relic.
- CDN support.
- Combine CSS/JS files
Interested parties can fork and then connect with him!
Thanks for the write up, John. If your readers have any questions, feel free to drop a note on GitHub.
Wow! Excellent, I was wondering when it would be feasible to have WordPress on Heroku!! Brilliant, thanks…
Hi! Great post. I gotta say that i did everything and it worked perfectly, but it’s said that nothing can be uploaded directly on the wp backend, but in my case i’m uploading themes and plugins normally. Is it an upgrade of heroku or wordpress or is it just a happy bug on my account?
Correction: it just showed me that it had installed…but it didn’t actually. =p Sorry