Self-hosted API: InvalidAsn1Error on npm start

I’m trying to test a self-hosted version of Staticman.

I followed the instructions on the README:

1. created a config.development.json based on the sample
2. added my GitHub Personal Access Token
3. added my SSH

but when I run npm start:

InvalidAsn1Error: Expected 0x2: got 0x0

Is there anything I missed?

(PS. there are 5 high severity issues in the dependencies, mostly about mailgun and github)

[gabeluci]

Here’s my post of my experience setting up my own Staticman instance: https://www.gabescode.com/staticman/2019/01/03/create-staticman-instance.html

[gabeluci]

Turns out I just needed a rubber duck to talk to. I just figured it out.

The “Key format must be specified” error got me thinking about maybe it’s just in the wrong format. Turns out, that was it. The node-rsa module can only import from certain formats, and whatever I had it in wasn’t the right one. So I had to convert it to PEM format. I did that with this:

openssl rsa -outform PEM -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa -out id_rsa.pem

I gave it my passphrase when it asked, and then there was a new file called id_rsa.pem. I used the contents of that in the rsaPrivateKey property (after replacing line breaks with \n). And now npm start works!