diff --git a/.env.heroku.php b/.env.heroku.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6715b791
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env.heroku.php
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?php
+
+$dbURL = parse_url(getenv('CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL'));
+$dbName = substr($dbURL["path"], 1);
+
+return array(
+
+    'DB_HOST' => $dbURL['host'],
+    'DB_DATABASE' => $dbName,
+    'DB_USERNAME' => $dbURL['user'],
+    'DB_PASSWORD' => $dbURL['pass'],
+    'DB_DRIVER' => 'mysql',
+
+);
+
+
+
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f939b8e7..46d452a5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ public/js/
 npm-debug.log
 .vagrant/
 tests/_output/*
+
+# Heroku
+!.env.heroku.php
diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile
index 0b03eba0..0e26515a 100644
--- a/Procfile
+++ b/Procfile
@@ -1 +1 @@
-web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-nginx public
+web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public