Netlify-cms: Integrating netlify-cms Identity with Vercel

[thyagoweber-sevenapps]

Describe the bug

I'm unable to make my dynamic generated NextJS blog to work in Vercel, even though I went through all the steps. I keep getting an Identity error.

• Hooked up the netlify-cms script into admin/index.html
• Created and configured correctly a config.yml file, setting git-gateway as backend name, the site domain, and the branch
• Was able to create a local_backend to test the settings

When I navigate to the /admin/ path, a button labeled "Login with Netlify Identity" appears, I click on it and all I see is the message "Unable to access identity settings. When using git-gateway backend make sure to enable Identity service and Git Gateway.".

Expected behavior

To be able to log in and use the admin area

Screenshots

This is what I see in the network tab:

Applicable Versions:

• Netlify CMS version: [e.g. 2.10.50]
• Git provider: GitHub
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04

CMS configuration

backend:
  name: git-gateway
  branch: master
  site_domain: https://[username].vercel.app/

local_backend: true
publish_mode: editorial_workflow

slug:
  encoding: 'ascii'
  clean_accents: true
  sanitize_replacement: '_'

media_folder: /uploads

collections:
  - name: 'blog'
    label: 'Artigos'
    folder: 'posts'
    create: true
    delete: true

    slug: '{{slug}}'

    fields:
      - {
          label: 'Title',
          name: 'title',
          widget: 'string',
          required: true,          
        }
      - { label: 'Autor', name: 'author', widget: 'string', required: true }
      - {
          label: 'Category',
          name: 'category',
          collection: 'categories',
          widget: 'relation',
          required: true,
          searchFields: 'title',
          valueField: 'title',
          displayFields: ['title'],          
          default: 'Uncategorized',
        }
      - {
          label: 'Publish Date',
          name: 'publishDate',
          widget: 'datetime',
          required: true,          
        }
      - { label: 'Thumbnail', name: 'image', widget: 'image', required: true }
      - {
          label: 'Featured article?',
          name: 'featured',
          widget: 'boolean',
          default: false,          
        }      
      - { label: 'Corpo', name: 'body', widget: 'markdown', required: true }

Additional context

While I was following the integration steps, I created a Netlify account and could only see the Identity options after I linked my repo. Is this necessary, even though I'll be using another service do deploy it?

[erezrokah]

Hi @thyagoweber-sevenapps, identity is a backend service that providers user management and git-gateway is a backend service that allows accessing a GitHub/GitLab repo without a GitHub/GitLab account.
Netlify can provide those services for you and you can also self host them:
https://github.com/hfte/netlify-cms-with-selfhosted-gotrue-and-git-gateway

Another option is to use a GitHub backend directly (or GitLab), but then any CMS user would need a GitHub/GitLab account.

If you use a GitHub backend you'll need a backend service to facilitate authentication either using Netlify as described here or use one of these external solutions

[pacxiu]

Some example with setting up authentication using - https://github.com/netlify/netlify-identity-widget for Vercel deployment would be great. I want to migrate 4-5 smaller, non-profit projects to use Netlify CMS and I'm starting playing around with Netlify's services, however 300 mins/build time might not be enough for those so this is why I would also prefer to deploy them on Vercel without creating multiple custom authorization Apps on Github.

@thyagoweber-sevenapps as far as I can tell you have to have it linked on Netlify to use Identity. Probably based on linked repo there is system set up to publish in there on your behalf.

@edit

I've managed to solve that with help from stackoverflow: https://github.com/pacxiu/next-with-netlify/commit/a4c9de3a8e024baf5b3c9f9c8ee4f49eb9fb10ae

Here is original post on forum - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52174873/using-netlifys-hosted-identity-service-with-self-hosted-netlify-cms

Now you can publish on Vercel :) @tonyrzhang