error 500: this app is not Heroku friendly

[hadifarnoud]

Cachet version 2.2.2
Database Postgres
PHP version 7.0.7

I'm running into all kinds of issues with Cachet. I managed to solve most issues myself but have no idea how to solve this one.

it seems like Cachet relies on dotenv package to load environment variables even in production. This is creating issue with Heroku.

in order to get over dotenv issue I committed an empty .env, but still can't manage to fix this 500 error

[2016-06-04 13:39:47] production.ERROR: InvalidArgumentException: View [setup] not found. in /app/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php:14326

[jbrooksuk]

You need to run rm -rf bootstrap/cache/* to fix the view not found issue.

[hadifarnoud]

I have done that @jbrooksuk with heroku run rm -rf bootstrap/cache/* I checked afterwards and the directory was empty.

[hadifarnoud]

the real issue is this:
[04-Jun-2016 13:58:08 UTC] [2016-06-04 13:58:08] production.ERROR: Dotenv\Exception\InvalidPathException: Unable to read the environment file at /app/.env. in /app/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Loader.php:75

for some reason, it looks for .env in production, which is not how Heroku works. I have to commit an empty .env file to fix this and that led to the issue I mentioned above.

[hadifarnoud]

it seems like ENV variables are not read from Heroku

[jbrooksuk]

That's how Laravel works. Laravel reads the .env file.

Unfortunately, we don't support Heroku out of the box :)

[hadifarnoud]

there seems to be a solution to this. not exactly sure how should this apply it to Cachet

[hadifarnoud]

this is not how you should use Dotenv. I don't know why you're loading it here for example.

I'm going to fork this and fix it.

[jbrooksuk]

Like I said, this is how Laravel works.

During the setup we have to write to the file, so we do have to load Dotenv.

If you have a PR that can fix this on Heroku and remain working for everybody else, I'm happy to take a look :)

[anonrig]

It would be really good if Heroku was supported.

[yoyosan]

I can take a swing at this.

[jbrooksuk]

I can take a swing at this.

Sure, thanks.

[cjthomp]

Sure wish I'd seen this before I wasted two hours setting it up.

[jbrooksuk]

@cjthomp did you manage to get setup? We dropped Heroku support over a year ago now.