I need to get the Neo4j Movies Example Project running on my computer (on localhost) to connect to my cloud-hosted Neo4j instance and access the data from it.
So far, I have successfully deployed a single instance of Neo4j Enterprise on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I had followed this tutorial: Neo4j standalone instance (VM-based) - Operations Manual and it is all working nicely,
as specified in the tutorial.
So, essentially, I have my Neo4j instance actively running as a Virtual Machine instance on Google Compute Engine.
Now, I have also set up the database for the Movies Example Project on my Neo4j instance, with the required data. I did this through the Neo4j browser, via https://[My_External_IP]:7473, and using the :play movies command and then executing the giant code block (that starts with CREATE),
which created the required Movie graph.
Coming to the other part, regarding the Movies Example Project:
I’m following this Neo4j example on GitHub, which is the Neo4j Movies Example Project in Symfony (PHP framework):
I cloned this repository with git clone and from the project root directory, ran composer install.
After composer successfully installed the necessary packages, it displayed “Creating the ‘app/config/parameters.yml’ file” and asked me to enter some parameters.
I entered the following (for neo4j_host, I put in my external IP address where my cloud Neo4j instance resides):
After this, I executed the command in terminal: php bin/console server:run, in order to run the application on localhost:8000.
The app runs; however, currently searching for any movie title does not display any data. This is what I see:
In the Neo4j example project tutorial, Example Project - Developer Guides, I believe it says that if we are using a cloud-hosted Neo4j database, we have to provide the URL to our Neo4j server in an environment variable NEO4J_URL.
So my question is, what does this mean? Where do I have to provide this URL?
Also kindly let me know if I have carried out all my other steps correctly so far, and if there any changes that I should make, please let me know. Thanks.