Deploy to DigitalOcean droplet?

akacronos

5 months ago

9

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  Jarrod

  Payload Team

  4 months ago

  Hey @akacronos! What steps have you followed so far? Is your repo cloned on your droplet? Have you run

  npm i

  in the project folder after cloning?

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  akacronos

  4 months ago

  I don't know how but it works now! Well, kinda, I can build and serve the repo, but I don't know how to let it run. I know there's is a package called pm2 (already installed from the tutorials) but I don't know which file should I run it with to serve payload.

  
  
  

  (I'm a Product Designers that can do front-end, I'm don't know well back-end stuff, sorry 😅)

  
  

  
  

  again i think i found the solution:

  pm2 start server.js --env production

  it's running fine.

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  Jarrod

  Payload Team

  4 months ago

  you got it! pm2 is what I would suggest to manage your node processes, a script

  pm2 start npm --name stage -- run serve --time

  . This example starts an NPM script called

  serve

  and aliases it to name

  stage

  . You can then run commands like

  pm2 restart stage

  .

  
  
  

  So if you make changes to your repo and pull those into your server, you will want to run

  yarn build && pm2 restart stage

  for your changes to appear!

  
  

  
  

  re: not knowing server stuff - I get that, that used to be me. While it is a mind shift from the FE, with practice it makes sense. Understanding how to manage a server, even in a basic sense is invaluable 🚀

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  akacronos

  4 months ago

  I'm going to try this config, thanks!

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  Jonny Willis

  4 months ago

  I'm probably in a similar boat as @akacronos ... trying to deploy a droplet. But I'm getting 404's. Everything works fine locally.

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  akacronos

  4 months ago

  did you manage to deploy to digitalOcean? need help?

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  AngeloK

  last month

  Would be cool if there was a Payload 1 click droplet install template