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Adapt timezone for PHP worker on Heroku

Adapt timezone for PHP worker on Heroku

When working with custom timezones and Heroku, you have to make sure to add the timezone everywhere. I've published a post recently how to configure it for the web dyno and Postgres [/adapt-timezones-on-heroku]. In usual hosted environments there is a php.ini file where you add the timezone and it's

Adapt timezones on Heroku

Adapt timezones on Heroku

I'm using the dynos of Heroku and the Postgres database addon from Heroku. Both are on UTC by default and Heroku is specifically advising against changing it. So make sure you know the repercussions. Dynos For the dynos you can simple use an environment variable called TZ and set it

Custom fonts on Heroku

Custom fonts on Heroku

There are a few special buildpacks to deploy custom fonts to your Heroku dyno. The most straightforward way I found isn't documented with Heroku, but can be found through a few articles. Simply create a new directory called .fonts in the root of your project and put your fonts in

Add maintenance mode while still using Cors headers on Heroku

Add maintenance mode while still using Cors headers on Heroku

Heroku offers a maintenance mode. With it, the dyno isn't reached and an iFrame with a maintenance HTML page is shown. But unfortunately it can't be customized any further than customizing the HTML page which is shown in the iFrame. This is problematic when building an API which is used

Copy local files to Cloudcube (Heroku) with aws cli

Copy local files to Cloudcube (Heroku) with aws cli

When migrating from an existing setup with files to an external storage like Cloudcube (which is based on S3), you already will have files in your system. Unfortunately the Cloudcube interface doesn't support working with folders or renaming multiple files. But luckily there is a cli tool which does the