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Scott Persinger edited this page Jul 3, 2014 · 3 revisions

Running Windows 7 VM under VMWare

  • Downloaded and installed heroku-toolbelt.exe

  • Instead of using toolbelt generated key, I generated a key with "puttygen" from Putty.

  • heroku keys:add doesn't work. "The key was invalid" Key looks like this: ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- Comment: "rsa-key-20140702" AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAukmSsEc1eozc7isUEyDPw3RSU8RAYcBnQ249 TD/Fv9hTuNE7zHeFaePZavf+6LPmPrkDhBinankKe7P8/XiwyhQh9oQydIwTxPQi SvI/tXbata9NT9G0AXldnxpmPfg5elHv6/lX1xR/DYwgjkc7hBex/ToNgho8iHht uBl8jmdLTWrgeHpVWUhFpLz79QBTB5c5SXJNXUMv+bRLwBBF7eQiAQpdKZDDxOvj 4+aDUvFOakMLUlgGwyHEw5dytWeigSbPfU1j2HlomjZiBIcXdITJML525UrDQSPD 7pwsD/ElWTi4FGcxGwwjEpU45Dc8GMxQxJa06J6uWIOtbb6W8Q== ---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

  • Tried to use heroku keys:add to generate a new key, it fails with "ssh-keygen" not recognized. I'm not running cygwin, so this isn't too surprising.

  • Installed OpenSSH for Windows from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshwindows/?source=dlp. Now ssh-keygen is available, and now heroku keys:add works. The key it generated looks like: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAvVpytj37UYjOcKXnk81zTnvRj2S4j1yDRfrP9f0q7sxt KTPiCSDStgPS7mgKZ8UzOKsRgxcJblgDKKJzZju1y8uDN3io7dFFluLvnsvKx75TLxOxlwiQG921r3Zx qpQQ5NU3frTwqs6DruszHSNTjXyb3rqQB7XeJNzm0uSiBds= IEUser@IE10Win7

    basically the 1 line version.

  • [Ah, didn't realize that Git/bin includes ssh-keygen, but its never set on the path. That's obviously the fix here.]

  • Ah, now went back to puttygen and hand-copied the "OpenSSH compatible" key text into Notepad and saved. This one works with heroku keys:add.

  • Now branched to the Node tutorial

  • Installed Node.js

  • Tutorial gives me sample code, but doesn't tell me where to put it. By reading ahead I infer it goes in 'node-example'.

  • Tutorial doesn't say "create index.js with notepad" - had to infer that myself.

  • Ugh. 'package.json' created by npm doesn't use Windows CR/LF so everything is on one line.

  • Tutorial says to use foreman start but foreman isn't on the path.

  • Ah, foreman is in ruby bin. Have to edit my PATH: set PATH=%PATH%;c:\Program Files\Heroku\ruby-1.9.2\bin

  • And foreman throws an error when I try to run it.

  • Ah, node is thrown in error, but foreman hides it completely. Yay.

  • Hmmm, maybe I forgot npm install. Running now. Ok, node index.js works now.

  • foreman start still fails: C:\Users\IEUser\node-example>foreman start Bad file descriptor c:/Program Files/Heroku/ruby-1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/foreman-0.74.0/lib/ oreman/engine.rb:371:in read_nonblock' c:/Program Files/Heroku/ruby-1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/foreman-0.74.0/lib/ oreman/engine.rb:371:in read_self_pipe' c:/Program Files/Heroku/ruby-1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/foreman-0.74.0/lib/ oreman/engine.rb:400:in block (2 levels) in watch_for_output' c:/Program Files/Heroku/ruby-1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/foreman-0.74.0/lib/ oreman/engine.rb:398:in loop' c:/Program Files/Heroku/ruby-1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/foreman-0.74.0/lib/ oreman/engine.rb:398:in `block in watch_for_output' 14:59:15 web.1 | exited with code 8 14:59:15 system | sending SIGKILL to all processes Probably some Windows-permission thing. Giving up on Foreman.

  • Now trying to add files to git.

  • 'git add' throws tons for CR/LF warning messages.

  • 'git commit' fails because my user.email and user.name aren't set.

  • Ok, ran 'git config'. Now 'git commit' works.

  • Git push throws a 'Authenticity can't be established' warning. Gotta say Yes.

  • 'heroku ps' says my app has crashed.

  • 'heroku open' sends me to an error page.

  • Right, my Procfile is running web.js but I created index.js because latest npm specifies that as the default script name. I didn't see that locally because Foreman never worked (presumably that was the issue).

  • Editing Procfile to use index.js.

  • Nope. Foreman still doesn't work.

  • git push heroku master

  • Yay! Deployed app works now.

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