staticman 🚀 - App error - Official staticman api on Heroku.

@IgorKowalczyk support has been dropped for the public instance. Please refer to the README for instructions on how to easily deploy your own instance to the free tier of heroku. Self hosting should provide you a much more reliable experience and the free tier of heroku is more than sufficient. I will be closing this issue but please feel free to post any further questions you may have here.

alexwaibel on 22 Feb 2020

I tried to put it on the Heroku, but unfortunately, no guidebook worked for me...

IgorKowalczyk on 22 Feb 2020

I'm happy to assist you if you can tell me more about what went wrong when deploying your own to Heroku. Unfortunately it is not feasible for us to run a reliable public instance off of this community run project.

alexwaibel on 22 Feb 2020

Let me explain. I've been doing everything as it's been handed down here: https://vincenttam.gitlab.io/post/2018-09-16-staticman-powered-gitlab-pages/2/ and here: https://muffinman.io/running-staticman-on-heroku/ unfortunately I didn't get to the correction in the second article because I had problems in the first one.
The command heroku config:set RSA_PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat key.pem)" did not work. My program was showing only an error: Program: does not exist. This may be related to $ openssl genrsa -out key.pem or to the "Stage 2: project config" section. I don't know what could be an error - maybe I misread the manual (I use the translator).

Sorry about my English too. (Translator - not google of course :smile:)

IgorKowalczyk on 22 Feb 2020

I would recommend consulting the README of this repo which has some more updated instructions. There is a "Deploy to Heroku" button in the README which simplifies much of the steps indicated in those links you provided. The discussion at the end of this issue may provide some additional clarity.

alexwaibel on 22 Feb 2020

Thank you, but I have a problem with the configuration file...

From: config.sample.json

{
  "gitlabToken." "YOUR_GITLAB_TOKEN."
  "githubToken." "YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN."
  "rsaPrivateKey." "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY---YOUR_KEY---END RSA PRIVATE KEY--"
  "port." 80
}

With the RSA key copied straight from the Github, change the text "YOUR_KEY" or something else, and remove the gitlabToken line or leave it as it is? Because I haven't seen it anywhere.

IgorKowalczyk on 22 Feb 2020

If you are hosting on GitHub pages, then use the "githubToken" key and remove the "gitlabToken" key. If you are hosting on GitLab pages, then use the "gitlabToken" key and remove the "githubToken" key.

The text for the "rsaPrivateKey" value should be changed to the text of your own private RSA key as a single-line string with \n newline characters.

alexwaibel on 22 Feb 2020

The text for the "rsaPrivateKey" value should be changed to the text of your own private RSA key as a single-line string with \n newline characters.

I don't understand it...

IgorKowalczyk on 22 Feb 2020

Have you created a public/private RSA key pair? If not, follow the steps outlined here to create one. Once you have a key pair generated, it'll likely be stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa. This is your private RSA key. You can print it to your console with cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa. This will show your private key in the form:

As you can see, here we have a multiline, key string. However, the configuration value must all be on one line. You must make this a single line string with explicit \n newline characters. You can convert this by hand, or with the following command: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | sed '$!s/$/\\n/' | tr -d '\n'.

The output, which you will paste into your config file, should appear something like:

EDIT: The above instructions are incorrect. Please see the proper way to generate a key further down this thread

alexwaibel on 22 Feb 2020

When I type the command heroku config:set RSA_PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat ./key.pem)" (I generated the key earlier) I get a message 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I don't know why this is happening.

I use the guide: https://yasoob.me/posts/running_staticman_on_static_hugo_blog_with_nested_comments/# (Readme does not help me much)