Setup
Instructions to run WildBeast on Linux
The basics
For safety reasons, please don't run WildBeast with the root
account.
If you don't know how to create a new user on Linux, please see DigitalOcean's guide on making new sudo-enabled users
We need a few prerequisites:
A computer running any supported version of Ubuntu
You need
sudo
ordoas
privileges, or access to theroot
accountIf you want to run WildBeast 24/7, you should get a VPS
A text editor. We're going to use
nano
, but you can use anything you'd like.
Installation
Installing Node.js
Run the following code in your terminal:
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
(Not a fan of
curl <url> | bash -
? You can do this manually too.)Install Node.js with the following command:
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Installing Postgres
Postgres is available to install by default on Ubuntu, just run the following code in your terminal:
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
We need to do some extra steps to prepare Postgres for use:
Create a new user for WildBeast to use:
sudo -u postgres createuser --interactive
The new user does not need to be a superuser, and can be called whatever you want.
Finally, create a new database:
sudo -u postgres createdb wildbeast
(We used
wildbeast
here as the database user, change it if you used something else in the previous step)
Setting up
Getting the code
Clone the code and install the required modules:
git clone https://github.com/TheSharks/WildBeast.git
cd ./WildBeast
npm install
Setting the options
Open the example configuration file in nano
and enter your details:
nano .env.example
When you're done, save the file as .env
Starting the database
Before we can start, we need to initialize the database. Run the following code:
npm run-script migrations:up
Testing it out!
Now for the fun part, testing to see if it worked!
Start WildBeast for the first time with the following command:
npm start
You should see something similar to the following if everything went well
19:11:41 [info] Gateway: Client ready
19:11:41 [info] Gateway - shard 0: Gateway ready
Test if your bot works by running the /ping
command
Next steps
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