Self-Hosting
How to self-host Friend Time.
- 1.
- 1.Copy example config files.
- Navigate to the
config
folder of this project. - Copy all files ending in
.example.json
and remove the.example
from the copied file names.- Ex:
config.example.json
should be copied and renamed asconfig.json
.
- 2.Obtain a bot token.
- At the end you should have a bot token.
- 3.Modify the config file.
- Open the
config/config.json
file. - You'll need to edit the following values:
client.token
- Your discord bot's token.database.host
- The ip address that your database is running on (orlocalhost
)database.database
- The name of the database to use.database.username
- The username to use when accessing the database.database.password
- The password of the user accessing the database.
- 4.Install packages.
- Navigate into the downloaded source files and type
npm install
.
- 5.Register commands.
- Type
npm run commands:register
to register the bot's commands.- Run this script any time you change a command name, structure, or add/remove commands.
- This is so Discord knows what your commands look like.
- It may take up to an hour for command changes to appear.
You can run the bot in multiple modes:
- 1.Normal Mode
- Type
npm start
. - Starts a single instance of the bot.
- 2.Manager Mode
- Type
npm run start:manager
. - Starts a shard manager which will spawn multiple bot shards.
- 3.PM2 Mode
- Type
npm run start:pm2
.
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