I am using a Redis DB to use an Express-Gateway on Heroku. I would like to know how to set Redis credentials as a unique URL-param, instead of using separated vars.
Right now, Express Gateway reads credentials from the file system.config.yml
, where credentials structure is
# Core
db:
redis:
host: [host]
port: [port]
namespace: [namespace]
password: [password]
Unfortunately, Redis on Heroku automatically sets credentials as a .ENV var, in the form of URL:
REDIS_URL = "redis://h:[psw]@[host]:[port]"
How can I make Express-Gateway reads credentials from .ENV instead of system.config.yml
? Or, how can I make system.config.yml
reads from .ENV the whole URL?
Even worst, credentials are not permanent, and are changed periodically without alert. So, how can I make Express-Gateway connect to Redis on Heroku?
Thank you
I solved in this way: splitting the Vars before starting the gateway, and set the Env vars.
/* ==============
server.js
================*/
const gateway = require('express-gateway');
const redis = require('redis')
const session = require('express-session')
let RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(session)
require('dotenv').config();
var redis_Url = process.env.REDIS_URL; // auto-stetted by the Redis Heroku Plugin
// example: redis://h:p81efd4c7e0ad310d7da303b7bd348d3d0bd9fcebc7aae61c9ba7c94a95a1290d@ec2-54-247-152-80.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:12799
var groups = /^redis:\/\/(.+?)\:(.+?)\@(.+?)\:(.+)$/gi.exec(redis_Url);
process.env.NM = groups[1];
process.env.PASW = groups[2];
process.env.HOST = groups[3];
process.env.R_PORT = groups[4]; // !!! don't use PORT as Env var name!!!
// Run the gateway
gateway()
.load(path.join(__dirname, 'config'))
.run();
and
#==============
# system.config.yml
#================
# Core
db:
redis:
host: ${HOST}
port: ${R_PORT}
namespace: EG
password: ${PASW}