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Kenneth Reitz
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Static Sites on Heroku Cedar
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:date: 2011-11-26 05:20
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:category: python
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:featured: True
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Heroku's excellent `Cedar Stack <http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar>`_
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has first-class support for Python, Ruby, Node.js, Java, Clojure, and Scala applications.
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Unfortunately, there's no obvious way to serve static sites without first
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fronting them with a Rack or WSGI application.
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The Cedar stack has unofficial support for
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`Custom Build Packs <https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python>`_,
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which allow you to compile your own language runtime on top of Cedar.
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My plan was to build an custom nginx build pack for Cedar, but that turned out
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to be completely unnecessary.
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Did you you know that Cedar has full (unofficial)
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support for PHP applications, fronted with Apache? When you push up a repository
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with an ``index.php`` file at the root, Apache and PHP are bundled into
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your application at runtime.
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Elegant Static Sites on Cedar
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First, lets turn your site into a PHP "application"::
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$ touch index.php
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Next, we can fully disable Apache's PHP engine::
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$ echo 'php_flag engine off' > .htaccess
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When you push this up, you'll have a bare Apache instance serving up the
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contents of your site to the world. Best yet, you can do all of the
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`stupid .htaccess tricks <http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/>`_
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that you could on on any traditional shared hosting platform.
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It works great! This very website is served this way. |