Private server installation on Digital Ocean
Create the Droplet
First create a Droplet running Ubuntu 16.04, then either SSH into the server or use the terminal from Digital Ocean's website. Next, enter the following commands step by step:
- `apt update`
- `apt upgrade`
Screeps needs python
- `apt install python`
- `apt install python`
nodejs is not installed on Ubuntu by default, and we want the new version so we need to add a new source before we install it because Ubuntu’s version is outdated This installs 8.x, see https://github.com/nodesource/distributions to grab sources for other versions
- `curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -`
- `apt install -y nodejs`
The weak npm package, which is what my install was choking on, needs make apparently, which isn’t installed by default
- `apt install make `
Update: 11/12/2018
After experiencing errors installing screeps as a global package, a solution was found here:
- `apt install build-essential` https://github.com/screeps/screeps/issues/48#issuecomment-282206006
We are only using sudo here so we can add --unsafe perm Weak (actually, node-gyp rebuild) couldn’t get a lock on a folder it needed to access without it More info at https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/454 --loglevel verbose so we can watch and make sure it doesn’t fail
- cd to a directory that’s empty that screeps init stuff can be stored, probably...
- `cd ~`
- `npm install screeps -g --loglevel verbose --unsafe-perm`
- `screeps init` (will need to give this your Steam Web API Key, see https://github.com/screeps/screeps )
- `screeps start`
Test connecting to your server using your server's IP (see Digital Ocean for that) and the default port. If that works, kill your server with ctrl+c and run it perpetually in the background using...
- `nohup screeps start &`
And you're good!
If you want to kill the server while it runs in the background, run...
- `killall -9 node`