Deploying to fortrabbit

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This step-by-step article describes how to deploy a Symfony web application to fortrabbit. You can read more about using Symfony with fortrabbit on the official fortrabbit Symfony install guide.

Setting up fortrabbit

Before getting started, you should have done a few things on the fortrabbit side:

  • Sign up;
  • Add an SSH key to your Account (to deploy via Git);
  • Create an App.

Preparing your Application

You don't need to change any code to deploy a Symfony application to fortrabbit. But it requires some minor tweaks to its configuration.

Configure Logging

Per default Symfony logs to a file. Modify the app/config/config_prod.yml file to redirect it to error_log:

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# app/config/config_prod.yml
monolog:
    # ...
    handlers:
        nested:
            type: error_log

Configuring Database Access & Session Handler

You can use the fortrabbit App Secrets to attain your database credentials. Create the file app/config/config_prod_secrets.php with the following contents:

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// get the path to the secrects.json file
$secrets = getenv("APP_SECRETS")
if (!$secrets) {
    return;
}

// read the file and decode json to an array
$secrets = json_decode(file_get_contents($secrets), true);

// set database parameters to the container
if (isset($secrets['MYSQL'])) {
    $container->setParameter('database_driver', 'pdo_mysql');
    $container->setParameter('database_host', $secrets['MYSQL']['HOST']);
    $container->setParameter('database_name', $secrets['MYSQL']['DATABASE']);
    $container->setParameter('database_user', $secrets['MYSQL']['USER']);
    $container->setParameter('database_password', $secrets['MYSQL']['PASSWORD']);
}

// check if the Memcache component is present
if (isset($secrets['MEMCACHE'])) {
    $memcache = $secrets['MEMCACHE'];
    $handlers = array();

    foreach (range(1, $memcache['COUNT']) as $num) {
        $handlers[] = $memcache['HOST'.$num].':'.$memcache['PORT'.$num];
    }

    // apply ini settings
    ini_set('session.save_handler', 'memcached');
    ini_set('session.save_path', implode(',', $handlers));

    if ("2" === $memcache['COUNT']) {
        ini_set('memcached.sess_number_of_replicas', 1);
        ini_set('memcached.sess_consistent_hash', 1);
        ini_set('memcached.sess_binary', 1);
    }
}

Make sure this file is imported into the main config file:

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# app/config/config_prod.yml
imports:
    - { resource: config.yml }
    - { resource: config_prod_secrets.php }

# ..
framework:
    session:
        # set handler_id to null to use default session handler from php.ini (memcached)
        handler_id:  ~
# ..

Configuring the Environment in the Dashboard

PHP Settings

The PHP version and enabled extensions are configurable under the PHP settings of your App within the fortrabbit Dashboard.

Environment Variables

Set the SYMFONY_ENV environment variable to prod to make sure the right config files get loaded. ENV vars are configuable in fortrabbit Dashboard as well.

Document Root

The document root is configurable for every custom domain you setup for your App. The default is /htdocs, but for Symfony you probably want to change it to /htdocs/web. You also do so in the fortrabbit Dashboard under Domain settings.

Deploying to fortrabbit

It is assumed that your codebase is under version-control with Git and dependencies are managed with Composer (locally).

Every time you push to fortrabbit composer install runs before your code gets deployed. To finetune the deployment behavior put a fortrabbit.yml. deployment file (optional) in the project root.

Add fortrabbit as a (additional) Git remote and add your configuration changes:

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$ git remote add fortrabbit git@deploy.eu2.frbit.com:<your-app>.git
$ git add composer.json composer.lock
$ git add app/config/config_prod_secrets.php

Commit and push

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$ git commit -m 'fortrabbit config'
$ git push fortrabbit master -u

Note

Replace <your-app> with the name of your fortrabbit App.

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B U I L D

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Size:
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Build & release done in 1625ms, now queued for final distribution.

Note

The first git push takes much longer as all composer dependencies get downloaded. All subsequent deploys are done within seconds.

That's it! Your application is being deployed on fortrabbit. More information about database migrations and tunneling can be found in the fortrabbit documentation.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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