Runway deployment broken?

[jeffchuber]

I deployed the app to runway but Linear is telling me the URL for hooking it up is invalid.

Here is an API key sanitized version

https://linear.app/oauth/authorize?client_id=1234&redirect_uri=https://app-production-111.up.railway.app&scope=write&state=linear-asdf&response_type=code&prompt=consent

I played around with the uri.. adding /? between the domain and the url params. As well as doing encodeURIComponent on the url, but I got the same thing from Linear.

This could be a Linear bug! Unsure.

Anyone else seeing this?

[tedspare]

Not your fault, @jeffchuber! This is a known issue that took a backseat. Thanks for bringing it up.

To self-host, you can either

1. manually generate API keys and populate the LINEAR_API_KEY and GITHUB_API_KEY env vars (solo use only) or
2. create your own OAuth apps under Linear > Settings > API > Create new application (with your Railway URL as the callback URL) and GitHub > your org > Settings > Developer > OAuth apps > New. Once created, you'll replace the OAUTH_ID fields in constants.

Option 2 will allow you to add teammates later.

This limitation follows from Linear and GH OAuth disallowing wildcard callback URLs.

I'll correct this in the self-hosting docs!

[jeffchuber]

@tedspare thanks for the quick response :)

Option 2 sounds great - your instructions are really good. One followup question - where can I find my "Railway URL" - is that just the base URL? eg https://syncymcsyncface.up.railway.app/?

Is that URL also inputted into Github's Authorization callback URL?

I am sure this is obvious to some. Appreciate the help!

[tedspare]

@jeffchuber great to hear! Thanks for catching a few unclear points (not obvious!).

The callback URL should actually be https://projectname.up.railway.app/api (key addition: /api). I'll clarify this in the docs.

And yep, GitHub OAuth takes that same callback URL.

_{😂 syncyMcsyncface}

[jeffchuber]

Perfect, that fixed things up perfectly.

Thanks for the help!

[jeffchuber]

In the end I was unable to get this to work sadly. Whenever I connected with Github it would reroute me back to synclinear.com/***** instead of my app, I don't know why. Whenever I connected with Linear, it would say that my uri was invalid. Very strange. It's almost like it wasn't even deploying my code... but I did do a smoke test and change some copy on the home page to verify and it did show my updated copy. The project had no string "synclinear" that wasn't in docs or marketing copy. Very very odd - but ran out of time this time to make it work.

[tedspare]

The smoke test helps to zero in on the problem. I wonder if you updated both OAUTH_IDs in constants.ts? Stale OAUTH_IDs could be the last piece pointing to synclinear.com/*. Otherwise, thanks for giving it a try @jeffchuber!