Tian J.

Check this blog out. It fixes the "Can't select database problem on WordPress on Heroku". http://blog.jiang925.com/2015/06/01/run-heroku-version-of-wordpress-locally-on-raspberry-pi-fixed-cant-select-database-problem/

@ibroadfo Rebooted the server. I don't remember exactly what I did. In essence: # change this line in wp-config.php $db = parse_url($_ENV["DATABASE_URL"]); # to $db = parse_url(getenv("DATABASE_URL"));