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How to install the Open Event Web App Generator on Heroku

To setup the open-event-webapp on heroku follow the following steps:

Automatic Deploy

You can use the one click deployment:

Deploy

If however you live out-side the United States or Europe you may need to manually deploy Open-Event WebApp generator on Heroku as many face problems through this process. However give it a go.

Manual Deploy

You can also setup your app on heroku manually:

Requirements:

  • heroku toolbelt installed on your system For more info on heroku toolbelt: here
  • git installed on your system
  • If you are MacOS users, you will need to install home-brew: here

Installation with Heroku

Note: Our app has an app.json, so it can be directly forked and setup on Heroku.

  1. First fork and clone the open-event-webapp git repository
$ git clone https://github.com/yourusername/open-event-webapp.git

Note: replace 'yourusername' with your github username

  1. login into heroku toolbelt
$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: [email protected]
Password (typing will be hidden):
Authentication successful.
  1. Now change your working directory into open event webapp folder
$ cd open-event-webapp/

cd into the repository

  1. do heroku create to create an heroku app
$ heroku create
Creating app... done, ⬢ your-heroku-app-name
https://your-heroku-app-name.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git

Note: replace 'your-heroku-app-name' with your heroku app name

Create the app

  1. check if heroku's git url is added into the remote by git remote -v
$ git remote -v
heroku	https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git (fetch)
heroku	https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git (push)
origin	https://github.com/yourusername/open-event-webapp.git (push)
origin	https://github.com/yourusername/open-event-webapp.git (push)

View remotes

  1. if it is not added automatically add the link to heroku's repository by typing following command in terminal
$ git remote add heroku https://git.heroku.com/your-heroku-app-name.git
  1. Open Event Webapp uses Redis. Run the following to create a redis instance.
$ heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev
  1. now push the code from the development branch to heroku's master branch
$ git push heroku development:master

Build Build Build

  1. confirm the webapp is running
$ heroku logs --tail

  1. sometimes the server may take a while to start, the logs would say State changed from starting to up when the server is ready.

  2. open the URL of your server in your browser

$ heroku open

It will fire up your deployed app like this: App running

However, if the web app does not fire up, try one of the following solution to resolve the issue:

  1. Open a new terminal and write: $ heroku open
  2. Go to your heroku account on the web and deploy your app from there

Congrats you are done now!