WORKING_SETUP.md

✅ Working FastAPI + Docker + ngrok Setup

🎯 Current Status: WORKING!

Your development environment is successfully set up with:

• ✅ Redis running in Docker
• ✅ ngrok exposing your local server publicly
• ✅ FastAPI server running locally
• ✅ Public HTTPS URL: https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app

🚀 Quick Start Commands

1. Start Services (Redis + ngrok)

./start-services.sh

2. Start FastAPI Server

# Simple working version
python simple_app.py

# Or the full version (once config is fixed)
python -m uvicorn src.app.main:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

3. Get Your Public URL

curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | jq -r '.tunnels[0].public_url'

🌐 Your URLs

• Local API: http://localhost:8000
• Public API: https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app
• API Docs: https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app/docs (when using simple_app.py)
• ngrok Dashboard: http://localhost:4040
• Redis: localhost:6379

🔧 Configure Clerk Webhook

Now you can set up your Clerk webhook:

1. Go to Clerk Dashboard
2. Navigate to Webhooks → Add Endpoint
3. Enter your webhook URL:

   https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app/api/v1/auth/webhooks/clerk
   

4. Select events: user.created, user.updated, user.deleted, session.created, session.ended
5. Copy the Signing Secret and add to your .env:

   CLERK_WEBHOOK_SECRET=whsec_your_webhook_signing_secret_here
   

📝 Available Endpoints (Simple App)

• GET / - Welcome message
• GET /health - Health check
• GET /config - Configuration info

Test them:

curl https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app/
curl https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app/health
curl https://d4e9601ecb72.ngrok-free.app/config

🛠️ Service Management

Check Services

# Check Redis
redis-cli ping

# Check ngrok tunnels
curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels

# Check Docker containers
docker ps

Stop Services

# Stop all related containers
docker stop $(docker ps -q --filter 'ancestor=redis:7-alpine' --filter 'ancestor=ngrok/ngrok:latest')

Restart Services

./start-services.sh

🔍 Troubleshooting

If ngrok URL changes:

The ngrok URL will change each time you restart ngrok (unless you have a paid plan). Get the new URL with:

curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | jq -r '.tunnels[0].public_url'

If Redis connection fails:

# Check if Redis is running
docker ps | grep redis

# Restart Redis if needed
docker restart $(docker ps -q --filter 'ancestor=redis:7-alpine')

If FastAPI config fails:

Use the simple app for now:

python simple_app.py

🎉 Next Steps

1. Test your webhook: Use the public URL to set up Clerk webhooks
2. Fix the main FastAPI app: The config parsing issue needs to be resolved
3. Add authentication: Implement Clerk authentication middleware
4. Add your business logic: Build your video generation endpoints

📋 Working Files

• start-services.sh - Starts Redis and ngrok
• simple_app.py - Working FastAPI application
• simple_config.py - Working configuration
• .env - Environment variables (configured)

Your development environment is ready for webhook testing! 🚀