Logviewer
Hosting the logviewer on the cloud or on your own computer.
Prerequisites
This logviewer hosting tutorial is written assuming you have already set up your bot and are running Ubuntu 20.04-22.04.
Downloading the files
You must have git installed on your system. If you do not, run
sudo apt install git
to install it.
You can download the logviewer files by running the following command:
Once done, you can use `cd logviewer` to enter the directory.
Installing the dependencies
First, install pipenv by running the following command:
Pipenv must be installed. Since this is also used for the bot, you can skip this step if you have already installed it.
Installing the dependencies is done by running the following command:
Configuring the .env
To configure the .env
file, you can use the following command:
This will open the example .env
file in nano. You can then edit the file with your info. You will need to enter the same mongo URI as your bot uses. The rest of the configs can be left to the default values, unless you have a specific reason to change them.
Then save the file and exit nano by pressing ctrl + x
, then y
, change the name from .env.example
to .env
and then enter
.
Running the logviewer
Now you can start the logviewer with the following command
(Optional) Keep logviewer running in the background with pm2
Pm2 can keep your logviewer automatically online in the background even if you close your terminal. To install pm2, run the following command:
Once installed, you can start the logviewer with pm2 by running the following command:
More info on how to use pm2 can be found on pm2's website.
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