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Apache+PHP with Phing Build Pack

This is a build pack bundling PHP and Apache for Heroku apps built with Phing. The standard PHP build pack takes your PHP source as is and deploys it directly to Apache, but this build pack runs a customized Phing build during the Git push before deploying to Apache. This is helpful for more complex PHP apps that require code generation or other preprocessing to prepare source code for deployment.

Usage

Repositories should have a Phing build file called build.xml in their root directory with a stage target that deposits web-accessible files in the directory designated by the PUBLIC_HTML_DIR environment variable. Projects may also deposit files that should not be accessed by users in the directory designated by the PRIVATE_DIR environment variable. For example, here is a minimal build.xml that simply copies the source from the src/main/php directory for deployment:

<project name="Sample Phing Build" default="www">
    <target name="stage">
        <fail unless="env.PUBLIC_HTML_DIR" message="Enivronment variable PUBLIC_HTML_DIR must be set"/>
        <copy todir="${env.PUBLIC_HTML_DIR}">
            <fileset dir="src/main/php"/>
        </copy>
    </target>
</project>

Of course, most builds would be more complex with file manipulations, mappings, or filtering. The PUBLIC_HTML_DIR and PRIVATE_DIR environment variables are also available at runtime for access by PHP scripts.

Configuration

The config files are bundled with the build pack itself:

• conf/httpd.conf
• conf/php.ini

Pre-compiling binaries

# apache
mkdir /app
curl --location -O http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache//httpd/httpd-2.2.22.tar.gz
tar xvzf httpd-2.2.22.tar.gz 
cd httpd-2.2.22
./configure --prefix=/app/apache --enable-rewrite --enable-expires --enable-headers --disable-setenvif     
make
make install
cd ..

# php
wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.3.15.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror 
mv mirror php.tar.gz
tar xzvf php.tar.gz
cd php-5.3.15/
./configure --prefix=/app/php --with-apxs2=/app/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-pdo-mysql --with-pgsql --with-pdo-pgsql --with-iconv --with-gd --with-curl=/usr/lib --with-config-file-path=/app/php --enable-soap=shared --with-openssl --enable-cli --with-readline --enable-pcntl --with-mcrypt  --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes
make
make install
cd ..

# php extensions
mkdir /app/php/ext
cp /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.16 /app/php/ext/
cp /usr/lib/libmcrypt.so.4 /app/php/ext/

# package
cd /app
echo '2.2.22' > apache/VERSION
tar -zcvf apache-2.2.22.tar.gz apache
echo '5.3.15' > php/VERSION
tar -zcvf php-5.3.15.tar.gz php

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Created by Pedro Belo and extended for Phing by Ryan Brainard. Many thanks to Keith Rarick for the help with assorted Unix topics :)