Question
Deployment stage failing due to heroku-php-apache2 problem
- Posted on August 18, 2021
- PHPDigitalOcean App PlatformPaaS
Asked by brownjohno1993
Hi everyone. As part of the project I’m building, i’ve started adding some composer dependencies. This is what my composer.json file looks like:
{
"require": {
"vlucas/phpdotenv": "^5.3"
},
"config": {
"vendor-dir": "build/assets/php/vendor"
}
}
Ever since adding this (it used to be an empty json object), after the build process finishes, the deployment fails with the following error:
heroku-php-apache2: command not found
I’m using webpack to build my site in a folder called build:
- webpack --mode production && composer update
and then the run command is set as heroku-php-apache2 build/. This is where the above error occurs:
heroku-php-apache2: command not found
Bit stumped on this. Is my composer.json file missing some specific information now?
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Hi @brownjohno1993!
I tried to replicate this by adding the
config/vendor-diroption to my app’scomposer.jsonbut it still deployed successfully. I did notice that theheroku-php-apache2executable was placed inbuild/assets/php/vendorinstead of its default location, but the$PATHenvironment variable was also updated to reflect the new path.To further troubleshoot this, can you update your run command to the following:
The first three commands will print some diagnostic info about the
heroku-php-apache2executable and the fourth command will attempt to start your app just in case it works.You can also try to clear the build cache and redeploy your app. To do this in the control panel, navigate to your app, click the Actions menu, and then select Force Build and Deploy. In the Force Build and Deploy window, select the Clear Build Cache option, and then click on the “Deploy” button. This clears the build cache and starts a new deployment.