Configuring ENV Variables for Backend

Special Steps if You have Deployed using Method 2 (i.e. Manually Using Git and Heroku):

• If You have Deployed Manually Using Git and Heroku, then You have to follow the Following Steps to Configure Your Variables:

  • Login in to Your Heroku Account.

  • Open the App in which You have Deployed the backend.

  • Navigate to Settings Tab inside the app.

  • Click on the Button Reveal Vars to Reveal the Variable Section.

  • Very Important: See that the Variable name should be Same as the Below. All Variable Names will be in Uppercase..

• In case You have Used my gindex-cli-tool, You don't have to worry about this, since everything will be taken care by the tool. You have to enter only the variable values.

Variables to be Configured:

• DBURL:

  • Put the Connection String that You have Copied When you Setted up the MongoDB
  • If Not, Go to Here and Copy the Connection String.

  

• SITE:

  • This is your heroku backend site address, which should be as follows:

  

• EMAILID:

  • Put the Email id that You have Created.

  • If Not, Go to Here and Follow the Steps.

  

• EMAILPASS:

  • Put Your Email Password for the SMTP Mail Account you have Created.

  • If Not, Go to Here and Follow the Steps.

  

• EMAILPORT:

  • Put the SMTP Port of the SMTP Mail Account.
  • If Not, Go to Here and Follow the Steps.

  

• EMAILSERVICE:

  • Enter the SMTP Mail Provider Name.
  • Example: Yahoo, Yandex.

  

• EMAILSMTP:

  • Enter the SMTP address you have Copied for the SMTP Mail Account.
  • If Not, Go to Here and Follow the Steps.

  

• ADMINEMAIL:

  • Enter the Root User's Email id - can be Anything, Need not be Same as the SMTP Mail Account email id.
  • User Requests to Join will be Sent to this Admin Email, then the Admin can Accept the Requests.

  

• REPLYTOMAIL:

  • Enter the Email same as Admin Email Variable before.

  

• MAXSESSIONS:

  • This is used to restrict usage of account on desired number of login on different devices/browsers.

  • For example: if you enter 2 maxsessions then you can login in 2 devices/browsers at one time and if you login in 3rd device then 1st one will get logged out

  • Enter numeric value only!

• EMAILGIF:

  • This will be used to enter a photo on top of emails.

  • Enter a JPG/PNG/GIF and maintain 4:5 ratio otherwise it will land in spam!

  

• SITESECRET:

  • This will be used when setting up root/superadmin user in backend to verify its you.

  

• TMDBAPI:

  • This will be used to render Movies/TV Series posters and information.

  • Get the API Key from this Step

• FRONTENDURL:

  • This will be front end URL, if you wish you can GA domain or just stuck with workers domain, You can visit here to create a worker on cloudflare and get a free .ga domain!

  • Multiple URL's Can be Given by Putting a , Example: https://sample1.com,https://sample2.com

  • URL's Should Contain http / https and Should not Contain a trailing / at the end.

  

• FRONTENDSITENAME:

  • Name it anything as per your choice for example: MyIndex

  • This will show in automated e-mail templates.

  

• TOKENSECRET:

  • It can be anything randomly generated. This will be Used to Issue JSON Web Tokens and Verify it. Recommended to Have Minimum 15 to 20 Characters. That will be Safe.

  • Use https://passwordsgenerator.net for generating long string.

  

That's it Regarding Configuring Variables for Backend. After all this, It should be Up and Running

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