I have <a href="https://sifavi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">this</a> side project with me since 2007, it is a one file php website with sqlite db and some pictures and js and css. I am keeping it just to monitor sometime how are the things at php side.
Anyway when I first build up this site I was using shared hosting, and in time I moved to dedicated server and today I decided to move to <a href="http://koyeb.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">koyeb.com</a> which is a nice cloud provider.
How to move old php code to cloud, I followed these steps
<ol>
<li>I copied all code and files to my github repo</li>
<li>created <code>composer.json</code></li>
</ol>
<pre><code>{
	 &quot;require&quot;: {
 &quot;php&quot;: &quot;^8.1&quot;,
 &quot;ext-pdo&quot;: &quot;*&quot;,
 &quot;ext-pdo_sqlite&quot;: &quot;*&quot;
 }	
}
</code></pre>
<ol start="3">
<li>Installed composer as described <a href="https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-macos" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">here</a> and ran <code>composer update</code> which will generate vendor folder and composer.lock</li>
<li>Create <code>Procfile</code></li>
</ol>
<pre><code>web: heroku-php-apache2 ./
</code></pre>
<ol start="5">
<li>push all to git</li>
<li>Go to koyeb console and deploy it to mini instance from github</li>
</ol>
Reference:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ozkanpakdil.github.io/php/koyeb/2024/12/25/deploy-php-cloud-koyeb.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://ozkanpakdil.github.io/php/koyeb/2024/12/25/deploy-php-cloud-koyeb.html</a></li>
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