Apache+PHP build pack

This is a build pack bundling PHP and Apache for Heroku apps.

Configuration

The config files are bundled with the build pack itself:

• conf/httpd.conf
• conf/php.ini

Pre-compiling binaries

# apache
mkdir /app
wget http://apache.cyberuse.com//httpd/httpd-2.2.19.tar.gz
tar xvzf httpd-2.2.19.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.19
./configure --prefix=/app/apache --enable-rewrite
make
make install
cd ..

# php
wget http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.3.6.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror 
mv mirror php.tar.gz
tar xzvf php.tar.gz
cd php-5.3.6/
./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
make
make install
cd ..

# php extensions
mkdir /app/php/ext
cp /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15 /app/php/ext/

# pear
apt-get install php5-dev php-pear
pear config-set php_dir /app/php
pecl install apc
mkdir /app/php/include/php/ext/apc
cp /usr/lib/php5/20060613/apc.so /app/php/ext/
cp /usr/include/php5/ext/apc/apc_serializer.h /app/php/include/php/ext/apc/


# package
cd /app
echo '2.2.19' > apache/VERSION
tar -zcvf apache.tar.gz apache
echo '5.3.6' > php/VERSION
tar -zcvf php.tar.gz php

Hacking

To change this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then create a test app with --buildpack and push to it.

Meta

Created by Pedro Belo. Many thanks to Keith Rarick for the help with assorted Unix topics :)