Viva beta Setup on AWS Lightsail Ubuntu Server (using dotnet; not docker)

[KVonGit]

I've got http://viva-beta.textmisadventures.com running at the moment.

It's on an AWS Lightsail Ubuntu Server 24.0.4 instance, with 2GB of RAM

To set things up, from a fresh Ubuntu Server:

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
• mkdir Documents
• mkdir Documents/GitHub
• cd Documents/GitHub
• git clone https://github.com/textadventures/quest.git
• nano quest/src/WebPlayer/Properties/launchSettings.json
  • Change the line "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:5052", to "applicationUrl": "http://*:80",
  • save, and exit nano
• sudo su
• cd
• curl -L https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh -o dotnet-install.sh
• chmod +x ./dotnet-install.sh
• ./dotnet-install.sh --channel 9.0
• nano ./bashrc
  • Add the following 2 lines:
    • export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/.dotnet
    • export PATH=$PATH:$DOTNET_ROOT:$DOTNET_ROOT/tools
  • Save the file and exit nano
• exit
• (now we are no longer running sudo su)
• REBOOT
• sudo su
• cd
• screen
  • Press ENTER to confirm
• dotnet run --project ~/Documents/GitHub/quest/src/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.csproj

At this point, we can detach from the screen by CTRL+A followed immediately by CTRL+D.

Now we can close our terminal, and the app will keep running in the detached screen on our server.

To get back into that screen (be sure to operating as su):
screen -list will show the id

screen -r ID_HERE will reattach it