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This guide will show you how to set up digger on Railway. This is a specific case of Deploy as docker image.
  1. Use the following template. It will create the Digger + PostgreSQL services and prepopulate many of the necessary environment variables. Deploy on Railway 📢 DISCLOSURE: This template was created by @sidpalas. He will recieve a (small) payment if you use it from the Railway template kickback program.
  2. Set your GitHub organization name (or username, if the repo you plan to use belongs to an individual user).
  3. Deploy.
  4. Navigate to the pubilc domain for the Digger service (Settings > Public Networking).
  5. Create the GitHub App Navigate to your_digger_hostname/github/setup and sign in with the HTTP_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME and HTTP_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD values. These are geneated automatically by Railway when performing the initial deployment and can be retrieved from the Variables tab for the Digger service.
  6. After creating the GitHub app, copy the provided values into their corresponding environment variables (overwriting the placeholder REPLACE_ME_AFTER_GH_APP_CREATION values): 
    GITHUB_APP_ID=
GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID=
GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET=
GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY_BASE64=
GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET=
    💡 Tip: When copying base64 values (e.g. the app key file), double clicking the text often does NOT select any trailing = characters. Make sure to copy them too!
  7. Redeploy.
  8. Create a PR to verify Digger is working properly.