How do I make it public?

[Gabriel Gazola Milan]

Hey there! We've got a Library instance up and running (it's awesome btw) but, unfortunately, as soon as we browse into our-app.herokuapp.com, it asks for signing in with Google. Is there a way of skipping this? Our docs need to be publicly available. Thanks in advance!

[Andrew Fischer]

Hi there,

Unfortunately there isn't an officially supported way to skip the login with Heroku. This is a highly requested feature we're looking into adding, though!

As a workaround, you could set the APPROVED_DOMAINS variable to ".*" (without the quotes) to enable all email addresses to be allowed through. Note that this will still ask for a Google sign-in, though.

-Andrew

[Gabriel Gazola Milan]

I see. Isn't it possible by using a custom userAuth.js, as you do in https://github.com/nytimes/library-customization-example ?

I've tried that, but still didn't work :(

[Andrew Fischer]

If you're able to run some customizations, using a copy of that userAuth.js in the linked repo should disable auth and set a default user. If you'd like to test it, you could set the that repo's git URL as the CUSTOMIZATION_GIT_REPO environment variable in heroku.

If that all works out, feel free to fork that customization example and add/remove/adjust whatever works for you!

-Andrew

[Andrew Fischer]

Hm, sorry it's not working for you. What URL are you using for that CUSTOMIZATION_GIT_REPO variable? is there anything in the build logs that indicate the repo was not cloned successfully? You should see "Cloning custom repo..." followed by "Installing custom packages..."