Set up wordpress on heroku. Some question

zhouxiang19910319 · July 11, 2018, 11:25am

I set up a wordpress site on heroku by following this guide:

but… at the end, the wordpress site I saw is not this:

but this:

Did I do something wrong?

zhouxiang19910319 · July 11, 2018, 11:26am

is it because the github link he provided is 4 years old and probably I should update wordpress???

(link I used) : https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku

s_coder · July 11, 2018, 2:30pm

I tried to figure out how to set up Wordpess on Heroku but I gave up. If you need a public-facing Wordpress site there are other hosting options that are better suited for hosting the Wordpress platform.

If you just want to play around with Wordpress you can use Cloud9 and do it for free I believe (I did in past while following a tutorial). These instructions might work:

zhouxiang19910319 · July 11, 2018, 2:32pm

yeah… I am trying digital ocean now.
heroku’s free plan is good for static sites only I think.

s_coder · July 11, 2018, 2:34pm

Cool, you should have no problems installing Wordpress on Digital Ocean.

zhouxiang19910319 · July 11, 2018, 2:41pm

… run into some issue while trying to customize the URL