Can't deploy hexo-admin

[juno249]

Recently, i wanna to deploy my Blog with this plugin to Heroku.
But, i was not found when i access to http://<domain-name>/admin
Tell me why i can't deploy it?

[jaredly]

hmmm that ought to work. what's your heroku Procfile?

[juno249]

when i deployed on localhost 0.0.0.0:4000/admin. Everything is ok. But on Heroku, for example: subdomain-heroku.herokuapp.com/admin. It's not work.

[jaredly]

and you're running locally w/ the Procfile? One possibliity is you're just using static files on heroku.

[huguiqi]

Recently, i wanna to deploy my Blog with this plugin to Heroku too.tell me why?thanks...

[wykydtronik]

no documentation on how to configure deploy? I am using hexo-deployer-git - what do?

[jaredly]

@Kaichi @huguiqi there are two ways to deploy hexo: static pages or as a running server.

• static pages: you run hexo generate locally, and then the resulting HTML & CSS files are hosted somewhere
• running server: the host (like heroku) runs hexo server, and pages are generated dynamically

I personally recommend static pages, because it is much cheaper and more efficient. However, when using static pages, hexo-admin is not accessible from your website, but is only accessible locally.
If you are using a running server for your website, then hexo-admin will be available at e.g. example.com/admin, and you will be able to edit blog posts from the running server without having to redeploy.

Which scenario are you asking about?

[jaredly]

to deploy dynamically to heroku, I imagine you would just need a Procfile like

web: hexo server

and then deploy heroku normally, the way explained in https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs#introduction

[jjalan]

I solved it as follows:

1. Create index.js file in root directory of your project that contains the following:

var exec = require('child_process').exec;

var port = process.env.PORT || 4000;
var hexoServerProcess = exec("hexo server -p " + port);

hexoServerProcess.stdout.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log(data.toString()); 
});

2. Add following line in package.json

"scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js"
  }

3. Now deploy using (do not use hexo heroku plugin as it only deploy static pages)

git push heroku master

This assumes that you have added heroku as remote pointing to your heroku git.

Working link to my admin:
http://blog.trysquad.com/admin

Complete details (end to end):
http://blog.trysquad.com/2016/12/31/Easiest-way-to-start-hexo-blog-for-your-website/