Heroku Hosting Microsoft Bot Framework Chatbot not working

Question

I have done a Chat-bot using Microsoft Bot Framework. The bot is perfectly running fine on the emulator. However I want to Host it on it to Heroku.

My app.js code:

var builder = require('botbuilder');
var restify = require('restify');
var apiairecognizer = require('api-ai-recognizer');
var request = require('request');

//=========================================================
// Bot Setup
//=========================================================

// Setup Restify Server
var server = restify.createServer();
server.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, function () {
   console.log('%s listening to %s', server.name, server.url); 
});

// Create chat bot
var connector = new builder.ChatConnector({
    appId: "xxx", /*changed*/
    appPassword: "xxx" /*changed*/
});

server.post('/api/messages', connector.listen());
var bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector);


var recognizer = new apiairecognizer("xxx");
var intents = new builder.IntentDialog({
         recognizers: [recognizer]
});

bot.dialog('/',intents);

intents.matches('Intro',function(session, args){
    var fulfillment = builder.EntityRecognizer.findEntity(args.entities, 'fulfillment');
    if (fulfillment){
        var speech = fulfillment.entity;
        session.send(speech);
    }else{
        session.send('Sorry...not sure how to respond to that');
    }
});

intents.matches('Default Fallback Intent',function(session, args){
     var fulfillment = builder.EntityRecognizer.findEntity(args.entities, 'fulfillment');
    if (fulfillment){
        var speech = fulfillment.entity;
        session.send(speech);
    }else{
        session.send('Sorry...not sure how to respond to that');
    }
});

I tried the following commands to push it on to Heroku:

git remote rm heroku
git init
Created a file .gitignore and inside it node_modules/
git add .
git commit -m "basic bot setup done"
Procfile and added the code web: node index.js
heroku create
heroku git:remote -a app name
git push heroku master
heroku open

I have also updated by messaging endpoint to Messaging Endpoint : http://appname.herokuapp.com/api/messages in Bot development Portal.

The build succeed. If I open http://appname.herokuapp.com/api/messages, I am seeing {"code":"MethodNotAllowedError","message":"GET is not allowed"} and on opening {"code":"ResourceNotFound","message":"/ does not exist"}

I am stuck here. I want to have the chat-bot on the page using the I Frame provided by Bot registration portal. How to proceed from here and make the bot working?

The get error is expected because the endpoint is a POST route. Does the chat in the registration portal work? — Ezequiel Jadib
Does your server have a valid SSL certificate? Your messages endpoint must be exposed via HTTPS with a valid cert. — nilsw

itaintme itaintme · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-25T14:45:59

I had the same problem, fixed it by doing this. Open terminal/powershell in the app folder and type the following

heroku config:set MICROSOFT_APP_ID=YOUR_APP_ID MICROSOFT_APP_PASSWORD=YOUR_APP_PASSWORD

Heroku Hosting Microsoft Bot Framework Chatbot not working

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