Deploying Symfony2 on Bluemix

We are trying to deploy a symfony2 application on bluemix, without success... We have seen a few posts about this kind of issue, but they are either without answer, or obsoletes, or with a slightly different issue.

We have a symfony application, based on the symfony standard edition distribution, moved in a backend folder because we also have a frontend. However, the composer.json is in the root directory, and references the backend folder. This is the only modification done.

Everything works fine locally, but not on Bluemix with the PHP buildpack, here is the error :

Generating autoload files

  [RuntimeException]                                                                                             
  Could not scan for classes inside "backend/app/AppKernel.php" which does not appear to be a file nor a folder

On Bluemix the env is set to prod through the manifest.yml, and we have tried the composer install in the same configuration locally:

 applications:
 - name: myapp
   random-route: true
   memory: 128M
   env:
    SYMFONY_ENV: prod
    #BP_DEBUG: true

This error is the one I get with verbose mode, and I have exactly the same without verbose mode. We run in no-dev mode on Bluemix, here is the full options.json:

{
    "COMPOSER_INSTALL_OPTIONS": [ "--no-dev", "-vvv"]
}

I have attempted to add scripts for debugging purpose. It works well locally but not on Bluemix, so it does not help at all. Extract from composer.json:

"scripts": {
    "pre-autoload-dump": [
        "echo TEST"
    ],
    ...
}

The file exists and is in the right place:

   $ ll backend/app/
    total 128
    drwxr-xr-x 6 bob bob  4096 févr. 28 15:45 .
    drwxr-xr-x 9 bob bob  4096 févr. 28 15:44 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob   101 févr. 23 11:37 AppCache.php
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob  1394 févr. 24 11:32 AppKernel.php
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob   263 févr. 23 11:37 autoload.php
    -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 40956 févr. 28 15:45 bootstrap.php.cache
    drwxr-xr-x 3 bob bob  4096 févr. 28 15:45 cache
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob  3909 févr. 28 15:45 check.php
    drwxr-xr-x 2 bob bob  4096 févr. 28 14:37 config
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob   897 févr. 22 15:28 console
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob   143 févr. 23 11:37 .htaccess
    drwxr-xr-x 2 bob bob  4096 févr. 28 14:37 logs
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob  1358 févr. 23 11:37 phpunit.xml.dist
    drwxr-xr-x 3 bob bob  4096 févr. 23 11:37 Resources
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob 34272 févr. 28 15:45 SymfonyRequirements.php

It seems like the configuration is correct (looking for the right place) in the composer.json. The same file is used locally without any issue:

"extra": {
        "symfony-app-dir": "backend/app",
        "symfony-web-dir": "backend/web",
        ...
}

Last thing I have in mind is that I did a cf delete myapp before doing a new cf push just to be sure the latest files are taken into account on Bluemix (because I don't understand why the pre-autoload-dump scripts are not run on Bluemix)

Thanks for the help!

Solution

I have found the issue.

First, I found it by doing this:

I have added the no-script and no-autoloader option to composer, to make sure that the container will run and I'm able to connect to it to see the filesystem. Without that, the container is destroyed and there's no way to know what happened.

"COMPOSER_INSTALL_OPTIONS_DEBUG": [ "--no-dev", "-vvv", "--no-autoloader", "--no-scripts"]

Then I have connected to the container with ssh (only with Diego):

cf enable-ssh
cf ssh

Then, by looking at the filesystem, I found out that the backend and frontend folders are put in an htdocs folder.

I have changed my composer.json to reference htdocs/backend/ instead of just backend/ and everything works fine. Sample from the composer.json file:

    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": { "": "htdocs/backend/src/" },
        "classmap": [ "htdocs/backend/app/AppKernel.php", "htdocs/backend/app/AppCache.php" ]
    },

The issue now is that I have a different behavior between the local environment (everything is in ./) and the container (everything is in htdocs/), and composer.json not supporting environment variables makes it complicated to use only one file. But that's another story.