You want this bot to be online 24/7 so I highly suggest you install this on a server. While you can install it on your local computer, that means the bot will go offline whenever your PC is shut down.

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In this guide, I will assume you are installing this on a Linux server running Ubuntu. The bot will work on other distros or Windows, installation steps will be very similar.

If you do not have a server yet, you can use one of these referral links to get some free credit and support the project :).

• DigitalOcean - $100 credit
• Vultr - $50 credit

Docker

• Make sure Docker is installed.
• Create a .env file with database credentials

docker run --env-file ~/.env catalysm/csgo-rankme:latest

You can now access the application by browsing to http://ip-address:8080

Expanded example:

docker run -d --restart on-failure:5 --memory="1g" --name rankme-stats -p 8081:8080 --env-file ~/.env catalysm/csgo-rankme:latest

Manual install

Installing Node.js

You can download Node.js from their website. To run this bot you will need atleast version V8.x.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl python-software-properties
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs

Now you should check the installed versions of node and npm (the node package manager)

node -v
npm -v

Installing the application

Download the latest release from Github.

curl -L https://github.com/niekcandaele/CSGO-RankMe-Discord/archive/vx.x.x.tar.gz | tar zx (Check the version number you are downloading in this command)

This command has downloaded the files and extracted them into a new folder, let's enter that folder

cd CSGO-RankMe-Discord-vx.x.x/

Now, we must install the dependencies. This command may take a minute, do not cancel it.

npm install --only=prod

Configuring the application

Running the application

Let's try running the bot now!

node src/index.js

If everything went well, you will see no errors and the bot will come online.

Auto start after a system reboot & daemonizing

There are many ways to do this. I will show you an example with PM2

Install pm2: npm i -g pm2

Start the bot with pm2: pm2 start src/index.js

Now the bot is running in the background. To make sure it will restart after a reboot: pm2 startup

Follow the instructions it gives. This will be different depending on what distro you are using.