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Deployment

• Deploying on Heroku
• Deploying on Nginx (recommended)

Heroku

Heroku is recommended just for prototyping. You can deploy the colyseus-examples project on it by hitting this button:

Nginx (recommended)

It's recommended to use pm2 and nginx in your production environment.

PM2

Install pm2 in your environment.

npm install -g pm2

Then start your game server using it:

pm2 start your-server.js -i 0

Nginx configuration

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name yourdomain.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        proxy_read_timeout 86400s;
        proxy_send_timeout 86400s;
    }
}

Nginx configuration with SSL

It's recommended to acquire your certificate from LetsEncrypt.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name yourdomain.com;

    ssl_certificate /path/to/your/cert.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/cert.key;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        proxy_read_timeout 86400s;
        proxy_send_timeout 86400s;
    }
}