• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/LeonLiber/tabot.git <folder name>

• Run php composer.phar install

• Open localhost/<folder name> in you're browser

• Goto https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quickstart and setup you're bot

  Tip: Don't forget to add 'Webhooks' product

• Install NodeJS, then run sudo npm i localtunnel -g, then run lt --port 80

  This will return a public URL to you're port 80 (which is the where the bot is)

#Logs /var/log/apache2/error.log

logs.log

#FAQ

1. .htaccess issues?

   1. Put it in the root /var/www/

   2. nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

   Change the directive pointing to your public web pages, where the htaccess file resides. Change from AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

    <Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
    </Directory>
   

2. Restart apache

   sudo service apache2 restart

3. Bot not getting messages from FB?

   Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/XXXXXX/messenger/ and make sure that under 'Webooks' the correct page is selected

4. Install/Reinstall LAMP

   https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu

   Remove existing: sudo apt-get purge apache2

5. Change document root

   Go to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

   sudo nano 000-default.conf

   Update the path to the root folder & save

6. Where is my bot app & page?

   https://developers.facebook.com/

#Heorku deployment

1. To get the DB host, run heroku config --app tabot and take part of the CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL as the base URL

2. heroku logs -a tabot -t

3. SSH to dyno: heroku run bash -a tabot

#Database

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS messages (

id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

message varchar(1024) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,

userId text COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,

created date NOT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (id)

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=74 ;