How to use php artisan migrate command of Laravel4 in Heroku?

Question

I am suing Heroku dev plan for creating database using PostgreSQL. Database is created in Heroku. After running heroku pg:info command

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Answer 1

It took a little digging, but I was able to use it by running this command:

heroku run /app/php/bin/php /app/www/artisan migrate

So the lesson I learned was this: prefix all remote artisan commands with heroku run /app/php/bin/php /app/www/artisan

Answer 2

This line will give you access to all laravel artisan commands:

heroku run php artisan

Answer 3

with the new official php build pack you just run

$ heroku run bash
$ php artisan migrate

or just

$ heroku run php artisan migrate

And if you want the migration to happen every time you deploy via git then add "php artisan migrate" to to composer.json in the "post-update-cmd" section of "scripts".

Answer 4

I would recommend to run migration as a part of build process. As it should be. Take a look at https://github.com/lifekent/heroku-buildpack-laravel. Official build pack with easy yo use support for running artisan commands

Answer 5

If you have multiple applications on a heroku server, you can do:

heroku run bash -a application-name

this will open a bash container for that specific application, and you can run any command inside this container. i.e

php artisan migrate:refresh --seed

Obviously you'll first need to make sure that you are already logged in to the heroku cli.

Answer 6

Here is a complete example, and will solve "nothing to migrate issue" that comes in for Heroku,

heroku run php artisan migrate --path=database/migrations --app application-name

application-name is your Heroku APP name