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post by Vetri on Jun 27, 2019

Hi Rasa Brains!.. Can you please help me in deployment process of Rasa chatbot

Summary:

• I have created a bot using Rasa NLU and Rasa Core
• I have used custom actions in file named actions.py
• Using Socket IO I have connected to React Rasa Webchat

It is working in Localhost just fine…but I need to make this bot available to others users via an URL

I would like to integrate the bot with Microsoft bot framework and then deploy it in Azure.

How can I do that? Detailed explanation with steps would be much appreciated… Attaching my Screencasts below… Screencast 1: I have used Rasa Webchat socket IO connections, Currently I am able to run it only on Localhost.

Screencast 2: My rasa socket server

Screencast3: My custom action server

I also have mongo DB server running, how to deploy all these in cloud and make accessible for Public use

Looking forward for the help!

post by Vetri on Jun 30, 2019

I am able to access Rasa chatbot using Ngrok link successfully!!

post by SallemiDorsaf on Aug 9, 2019

hi @Vetri can you please explain more the steps

post by ravikrcs on Aug 13, 2019

which port you are exposing through ngrok i.e. the port on which rasa server is running or another one.

post by Spike on Aug 13, 2019

Hi @Vetri I am trying to develop a similar bot but I have difficulties connecting to React Rasa Webchat, can you tell me the steps or share the source code? Thanks a lot!

post by Vetri on Aug 18, 2019

Hi Ravi,

I have exposed 3 ngrok ports, 1st- Rasa server - generally 5005, 2nd - Rasa actions server (for Custom actions) - 5055 3rd - Website host - 5000

Run the ngrok url - the one exposed with 5000 to access website from anywhere/any device

post by Vetri on Aug 18, 2019

To connect your bot to Rasa Webchat successfully, below steps are essential

Step 1 - Create credentials.yml and paste the below

socketio: user_message_evt: user_uttered bot_message_evt: bot_uttered session_persistence: true

Step 2: Copy and paste the html from the below link to your website file

Inside the script provide the port of Rasa server you use (generally 5005 or 5500) socketUrl: "http://localhost:5005/", socketPath: "/socket.io/",

Also if you want to see the Ui widget without connected to server, Inside the script tag set hide as false… hideWhenNotConnected: false,

post by Vetri on Aug 18, 2019

Hii,

On which part do you need explanation?

post by Spike on Aug 18, 2019

Thanks, I will go and try later.

post by ravikrcs on Aug 19, 2019

post by Vetri on Aug 19, 2019

Hii, For free users, ngrok allows to expose upto 4 tunnels at the same time. You need to update the ports in the configuration file and run ‘ngrok start --all’ in your terminal. You can find the process in the below link! https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started

Docs for your reference https://ngrok.com/docs

Thanks.

post by ravikrcs on Aug 27, 2019

it is fine on localhost but now I want to deploy on cloud like AWS…How to proceed?

post by Aashay1 on Apr 2, 2020

Hi can you please put up the steps on how to make it publicly available!!

post by JulianGerhard on Apr 2, 2020

I’d suggest to use a dockerised deployment then. After a quick googling, I found this tutorial which seems to be pretty up to date. I guess if you decide to use AWS, scalability is of use and if you are using Rasa X alongside your assistant, then I’d even recommend this documentation about the Kubernetes Deployment.

Kind regards

Julian

post by ravikrcs on Apr 2, 2020

Thanks @JulianGerhard

post by muzammilali28 on Dec 11, 2022

@Vetri Hello there brother I just went through your post right now and I think you can help me with this ngrok deployment issues that I am facing with my rasa chatbot. I have UI widget from

botfront/rasa-webchat: A feature-rich chat widget for Rasa and Botfront (github.com)

I have used the “<script/.>” tag procedure mentioned on Widget github.

Now I want to do is that I want other people around the globe to access my chatbot and I heard it is possible with ngrok, but I dont know how can I do it… can you help me?

I know how to make 3 ports available at the same time on ngrok using the ngrok.yml file setting and doing ngrok start --all , I have used

1st port for rasa run → ngrok http 5005

2nd port for rasa run actions → ngrok http 5055

3rd port for my .html running on 127.0.0.1:5500 → ngrok http 5500

But now the issue is that I cannot make them work together and I cannot see my widget on ngrok link of port 5500 , can you help me please ??