Minecraft heroku server (WIP) -> HEROKU HAS DELETED THEIR FREE TIER, THIS STILL WORKS JUST NOT WITH HEROKU

Minecraft server to be hosted on heroku with dropbox storage and ngrok support

Installation

Clone the repo

https://github.com/latinrev/minecraftserver

And then as you would normally do

$ npm install

Configuration

Local Config

There is an example.env(Rename this to .env ) file in the repo telling you where to put your tokens

NGROK

Create an account in ngrok, retrieve your access token and paste it in your .env file

DROPBOX

Create an account in dropbox, create a new application of type folder and retrieve your folder access token and paste it in your .env file

Heroku Config

HEROKU

Create an application and follow the instructions to push the repository

NGROK

Create an account in ngrok, retrieve your access token and paste it under the name NGROK_TOKEN in your Enviroment variables in heroku's dashboard

DROPBOX

Create an account in dropbox, create a new application of type folder and retrieve your folder access token and paste it under the name DROPBOX_TOKEN in your Enviroment variables in heroku's dashboard

KEEP-ALIVE URL

Paste https:// "YOUR HEROKU APP NAME" .herokuapp.com/ under the name BACKUP_URL in your Enviroment variables in heroku's dashboard

Usage

Local

Just do

$ npm start

Navigate to localhost:5000 to start the server

Heroku

Heroku will automatically detect the procfile and start the webpage, if that doesn't work go into the dashboard/resources and scalate the dyno to be on.

To start the server go to https:// "YOUR HEROKU APP NAME" .herokuapp.com/