PHP #

Buildpacks allow for various configuration options (through BP_PHP_* or BP_COMPOSER_* variables in project.toml or via the environment), we try to auto-detect what’s best so here is a summary.

When does it run? #

Auto-detection runs as soon as we discover a composer.json file in your project.

Auto-detected settings #

BP_COMPOSER_INSTALL_OPTIONS is set to --no-dev --no-scripts --ignore-platform-reqs. The first two are self-explanatory when you work with PHP and Composer on a daily basis, the last one is due to how buildpacks works. After composer install is performed, the buildpacks run a detection of your requirements and automatically create a .php.ini.d/custom.ini inside your project, which takes care of loading the required PHP extensions or polyfills for your code.

We attempt to find your project’s documentroot and set BP_PHP_WEB_DIR accordingly. Possible values are htdocs, public and www. If your code is located somewhere else, you should set this.

When we discover your documentroot successfully, then we set BP_PHP_SERVER to httpd. An alternative is to set this to nginx yourself.

BP_PHP_ENABLE_HTTPS_REDIRECT is set to false and therefor disabled on runway by default. All our domains provide SSL.

Override #

When you set your own values, these values are always respected and we will stop adding them.