You are most welcome. :)

you are welcome. :)

you are most welcome. :)

You are most welcome, and all the best with the games. :)

You are most welcome. :) and thank you for the kind words.

You are most welcome. :)

you are most welcome. :)

You are most welcome.

You're very welcome!

Thank you for your kind words. Happy gaming. :)

You are welcome.

Thank you so much for the kind words.

I did the same. it also prevents the instance from being deleted after the trial period if by chance one crosses the free tier quota. cheers.

You are most welcome. :)

thank you for the kind words.

You are most welcome.

Thank you for the kind words. :) May you have wonderful games as well.

Thanks for the kind words, hope you have wonderful and fun games.

glad it worked. cheers

You are welcome

Thank you for the kind words. The script though half way independent is almost identical to the foundry wiki page. I discovered the wiki page while searching for something. This is just a shortcut, the script is just doing the instructions for you. I doubt they will put it up there, the sentiment, last I checked, was very do it yourself so you know if you make a mistake, I kinda agree with that for important work stuff, but not for my free time hobby. :)

You are most welcome. Yes, I have not yet payed for my foundry instance, I have upgraded my account as well. You don't need to pay as long as you are within the free tier limits. :)

Thank you for the kind words, you are welcome. :)

@@acowardgaming One question: I've heard from some Foundry and Oracle users that Oracle will delete instances without warning if you don't upgrade your account to Pay As You Go. Is this true? Also, second question: What is the easiest way to make a backup of my world? Download the files from the server using Cyberduck?

​@@jakemagee7627 I am out of the free trial month, and my instance is still running. The deletion used to be the case a few months ago, but apparently, I think since beginning of this year, they have fixed it now, and the instance will not be erased. Only those resources that are over the free tier category or in paid tier, will be reabsorbed by Oracle. But you are right, backups are a must. No questions. "If you have more Ampere A1 Compute instances provisioned than are available for an Always Free tenancy, all existing Ampere A1 Compute instances are disabled and then deleted after 30 days, unless you upgrade to a paid account. To continue using your existing Arm-based instances as an Always Free user, before your trial ends, ensure that you have no more than 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory in total across all the Ampere A1 Compute instances in your tenancy." docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier.htm I back up by downloading the folder, as well as setting up a back up on oracle, so it backs up the instance every week. The download the folder to a local machine is doable through cyberduck or any other sftp capable program like filezilla for example.

you are most welcome.

You are most welcome. :)

Thank you for the kind words. one can edit the caddyfile, something like sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile In the file there is a section like this below, replace the your.url.here to your new url. # A CONFIG SECTION FOR YOUR HOSTNAME your.url.here {

Thank you for the kind words. Its one or the other, foundry has been set up during install to accept the url. You may reverse back to the ip address in foundry settings tab, or if you have access to another website that you run, you can set up an "A" record like vtt.yourwebsite.com. If that is not an option, you may have to just use the ip which is not usually recommended. You may have to do a bit of testing to make sure the ip is working and may have to manually disable caddy. It is a weird situation I have never encountered before. Also, getting a new browser just for foundry is not that hard and Chrome can be installed without admin privileges per client. I hope you guys figure out a solution. Cheers.

Keep the linux installation updated with sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade like I show towards the end of the video, that should keep the system updated. You don't need to shutdown the server to upload files, but if you want to make a local back up on your own machine, I would recommend using pm2 stop foundry, and then using filezilla or cyberduck or just cmd line, depending on your prefered method of file transfer. The wiki shows auto backup that can be restored later on manually, I didn't think about this, but I think its worth making one. Thanks for the idea. With work being as busy as it is, I will try to make one soon. And you are most welcome. :)

You're welcome!

the easiest way to invite folks is by the url you created using a dynamic DNS service. the invites from inside foundry is for folks who don't use this method and self host on their own computer without an url. for example the link I used in the tutorial was acovtt.ddns.net, if my server was up, folks can connect to the vtt using that link. hope that helps.

upgrading to v11 can be done from within foundry setup page. Once the update is done, the instance can be restarted via ssh with "sudo shutdown -r now" Once restarted the new version should be running. This is running the nodejs version so there should be no issues with the rewrite, if I understand those only affect the standalone version of foundry not the server nodejs version. Let me know how it goes. I am still running v10 as some of the modules I use are still not updated for v11.

@@acowardgaming I'm still waiting for some modules too, but I will update when I make the switch.

Thank you for the kind words

My apologies for the late reply, been a bit busy. That is doable. edit the file /etc/caddy/Caddyfile with vim or nano or any cmd line text editor of your choice, and replace the ddns link with your link, save it, and then restart caddy using systemctl reload caddy, That should do it. If you need further reading or clarification, you can find the details about caddy in their docs, caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile

yes, that is an excellent idea. I plan to make one as an update in a few days if time permits, I am currently abroad for a few months. I will see if I need to perform the upgrade to the new version, if I do, I will document the process in a step by step guide. Thanks for the suggestion.

I was able to fix the issue. I restarted the process, I initially did not get the Kernel popups but I did the second time around

Are you able to connect via ssh to the server box now? and if you are using cloudflare there are additional steps that may be needed, if I remember right, because of the default proxy masking it does. Sorry for the delay in response, been a bit busy. 502 usually means bad gateway, Sometimes the ddns can take time before it is ready. Let me know if you are still having problems. We can attempt to figure it out one step at a time.

I had another person who had the same error, I think its because the url typed into caddyfile may have had some extra character. To fix it, try the following. Once you are in your oracle instance, through ssh (look at step 3 of the writeup), then type sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile That should open up a file that you can edit, change the text in the your.url.com or something like that to your actual url that you want to use, then save it by hitting ctrl+S or exit with Ctrl+x and you can save it then. Once you are back in the prompt type sudo service caddy restart That should fix it for you.

@@acowardgaming Hey, sorry for the late reply but thank you for the info I ended up using a different hosting solution but I'm going to give this a try again

Fixed this, it was URL error like in some of the other comments. Now I get error ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Fixed, I deleted the # at the beginning of the place where I edited the caddy url causing me to not be able to restart due to error code /facepalm Thanks Aco, you are le goat!

I am glad you figured it out. cheers.

I can only guess, its possible that there may be a space somewhere in the address, try taking a look at the first pinned comment.

No, foundry just needs nodejs, and nodejs is system agnostic. It should run fine on any ubuntu installation.

That is doable. edit the file /etc/caddy/Caddyfile with vim or nano or any cmd line text editor of your choice, and replace the ddns link with your link, save it, and then restart caddy using systemctl reload caddy, That should do it. If you need further reading or clarification, you can find the details about caddy in their docs, caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile

I am having the same issue, and would be very interested if you find a solution to the problem.

sorry for the late reply, pay as you go is a good option, you don't pay unless you cross the free limits, which are very generous, I have not yet payed for my foundry instance.

One doesn't need to make one as the wiki says, as oracle will create one for the first instance automatically. If that was somehow deleted, then yes, you may need to create one. Its always good practice to make one yourself. Around 9:19 in the video I go there to edit the ports, but if its not there, then you are right, you may have to make one.

@@acowardgaming I Tried it twice last night and when I hit create it failed because there was no VCN and something else and pointed me to the blank networking stuff. no worries I will manually create it like in the wiki. TY for the video it has been very helpful. My players dont like me using NGROK to host on my machine because ngrok urls trigger malware alerts in chrome. It has worked fine but someone always mentions it so I was looking for another method to hos our games and this one seemed better than AWS.

@@momogod01 I see, all the best, hopefully this works out for your guys. :)

@@acowardgaming Can confirm, if you've never touched oracle before then it will throw an error if you try to set up a VM without doing some network stuff first. I don't know if that's a new change since you made this guide but it 100% did not create one for me automatically. I would up pulling up the original wiki guide for this process and setting up the network with those instructions (It's the first thing they make you do after creating an account) and then came back to this video and stuff seemed to work fine at that point.

@@hybredmoon good to know, seems like its confirmed now that a new account will need to make the virtual network first. I will pin this thread so folks in the future can take a look.

sorry for the late reply, but it should, luckily foundry worlds are separate from the foundry install. But, the upgrade script I wrote for v11 still works for v12, one just has to hit Y for yes once during the script execution and provide the v12 timed url instead of v11 timed url, and it will upgrade it to the latest v12.

Its alright, that is normal. Don't worry. As long as you are not using all the resources, you should be good. I am out of the free trial period, and my instance is still running. :) Its important that you are not using more than what is offered in the free tier. If you allocation was what I recommended, then you should be good. Hope you are having wonderful games. :) cheers

@@acowardgaming At the point I was asking a speculative question about the SSH Key, but now my SSD died and keys were on there :(. Anyways to retrieve the userdata to simply recreate it? As a different mention, can we use a different CPU?

@@RPKris Unfortunately I don't know of a way of recovering ssh keys once lost. I hope you are able to find a way to download your files. If recreating, a different cpu can be used for sure, as we are using nodejs, its cpu agnostic as far as I know.

@@acowardgaming Found a way just now after a week, so what you would want to do, is to detach the Boot Volume, if you don't have any space, terminate the Instance, just make sure you have unchecked "Delete attached boot volumes"(just for safety), locate your terminated instance, head to it's Boot volume, and (re)create a new instance with the Boot Volume(it will give you an option), then all well and good, you should have new SSH keys, but you will need to uninstall/reinstall foundry, as for whatever reason doesn't work out of the box.

I have not run into this error before, are you using the exact format with username in the ssh command? or are you using ssh ip-address? usually you want to use the key and user name in the same command. If you are entering the ssh command correctly, then hopefully the following website has some solutions for you: phoenixnap.com/kb/ssh-permission-denied-publickey

you are welcome. :)

timed out mean that the connection is not happening. Here are some tips to debug the cause. 1. Try connecting with the ip directly instead of the new dynamic dns that was made. Sometimes providers like cloudflair hide the ip for safety. 2. Check if the instance is running when logged into your account in oracle's website. 3. If all else fails, terminate that instance and try again, sometimes things fail or you may have gotten a very busy node. Hopefully these tips point you in the correct direction. Let me know if things don't work out, we can try to fix it.

No. Not with the standalone app that you install on windows or MacOS. You don't need it anymore. This shows the installation of the Linux standalone app, which doesn't have a gui on the server. But you can connect with a browser to get all the functionality. Also the standalone app comes with 2 things bundled together, the server and a gui console that you can use to control things in Foundry. That gui is a watered down browser usually using electron, unless they changed it recently. With this method you can use a web-browser even if you are a DM and control everything like you can do before. It is recommened to use a browser even if you are using a sandalone app. Reason being a browser gives you a lot more flexibility with modules that the standalone app can't. Especially with modules that let you pop out windows. I also recommend reading up a bit more on this topic and NodeJS apps. Almost all NodeJS applications like foundry are meant to be run in a browser window. TLDR: NO. Must use browser to connect. The standalone app is not needed.

Just FYI, firefox , chrome, edge, opera, etc are web-broswers. You can use anyone that you like. If you want more vertical space all the browsers have full screen options like F11 for firefox.

should be similar. if I remember correctly, the Macs usually have ssh installed already, so once you ssh into the oracle server, everything else should work. anytime I use windows specific things, you may have to find the Mac equivalent, but for ssh, it's usually 90% the same, and again, once you connect everything is the same on oracle's server.

@@acowardgaming cheers

I got it to work by adding port 30000 in the VCN

If you were trying to connect to FoundryVTT instance then yes, you may need to add 30000, but that is probably not a secure connection. If you followed the instructions and pointed your ip to either a ddns or a domain, then you should have a secure connection. This doesn't cause any problems, just some of my players worry that its not secure connection. Glad you got it working. :)

@@fmaho3139 SSH doesn't need 30000, but yes, just the froundry instance will need that if you wish to connect using ip address.

you are welcome. There are two ways to shutdown: 1. if you want to only shutdown foundry, and not other services on the virtual machine, then use "sudo pm2 stop foundry" 2. if you want to turn the virtual machine off, use "sudo shutdown -P now" IMO, there is no need to shutdown the machine. Just the usual "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y" once in a while to update it is good. Its a good practice to restart the machine after the update, for that one can use "sudo shutdown -r now". P.S. Once you shutdown using -P option you may have to start it from the instances tab in your oracle cloud dashboard.

@@acowardgaming Thank you so much I'm not very familiar with Linux :)

To securely connect you need to use an url. But, if you open up port 30000 on oracle and using the iptables on your server, you can allow people to connect with just ip. Though I am wondering why would you need to connect directly with ip? As the purpose of url is so people don't need to remember obscure ip addresses. Just curious.

@@acowardgaming thanks for replying. I don't need to or plan on doing. I simply just want to know if I can do it for whatever reason. Thanks for your help and replies.

I tried that too, it seems to depend on the bank. I tried a few things and one of my banks worked. I really hope you can figure it out. Oracle support may be able to help.

this has happened before for others, we figured out that the issue is using an older version of Ubuntu in your oracle server. Please try again with the latest LTS, 22.04 I believe. Oracle by default doesn't choose the latest LTS version.

That is a very specific foundry issue, they are extremely helpful in the foundry discord. Please ask there. I don't know what happened, I can only speculate. Its possible this may have happened during an outage. Also try a different browser to see if that helps.

@@acowardgaming It happens with Safari browser.

that usually means you didn't download the Linux nodejs version of foundry, thus the extraction failed. please try again with the Linux version.

@@acowardgaming Exactly! Thank you! Now, it's running properly when I use the Public IP Address, but not with the hostname from NoIP. It says "This site can’t be reached". Do you know if it takes some time to actually "link it" or I messed up somewhere else? It connects in powershell with the hostname, tho, just not on the browser.

@@tocadohawke It can take a few minutes, any update on this?

@@acowardgaming the problem was my lack of attention. Used the wrong port (443 instead of 433 or vice versa). But, its working now, tyvm. It's the best tutorial I've found.

figured it out, I think when i downloaded the timed url i had it set to windows instead of linux json

@@riogrande2638 glad you figured it out. Sorry, I missed this message. Its been a busy few days. Yeah, that is what I guessed, as it couldn't unzip it, there was no folder for the later steps.

@@acowardgaming No worries! Thanks to your video and automation I'm saving money every month! And since Im doing 3d assets the file size limits on the foundry "partner" servers were really hindering my potential

​@@riogrande2638 you are most welcome, and Happy gaming. Cheers.

I had another person who had the same error, I think its because the url typed into caddyfile may have had some extra character. To fix it, try the following. Once you are in your oracle instance, through ssh (look at step 3 of the writeup), then type sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile That should open up a file that you can edit, change the text in the your.url.com or something like that to your actual url that you want to use, then save it by hitting ctrl+S or exit with Ctrl+x and you can save it then. Once you are back in the prompt type sudo service caddy restart That should fix it for you.

Just FYI, I used this script day before yesterday to install a testing instance, and there was no errors.

nvm the github page has the update commands! thanks!

@@DruidBoyTc0ok yes. :) I was about to upload a vid showing that too. The info is the same.

sometimes it takes a few minutes to an hour before the new address registers. please try in an hour or so, if the problem still persists, then we can try debugging.

@@acowardgaming The address still isn't working. Still Error 502

a few others had the same issue, you can see in he comments. the solution was to do the process again, start where we run the script. A few common mistakes are using an older version of Ubuntu for your OS, try the latest LTS version. the other more common issue is folks download the wrong version of foundry, you need the nodejs/Linux version. if you are unable to get it working after trying again with the recommended fixes, let me know, we can do a call on discord or something and debug it together.

@@acowardgaming I was using the wrong Ubuntu version! Oracle Cloud defaults to version 18 instead of the more recent 22. Restarted from the beginning with the instance on the right version. Thanks for the assistance!

@@agent_will9090 I am glad it worked out. Cheers. :)

Questions: 1. Did you use more resources than was advised in the video? or more than what was recommended by Oracle? If you did so, then yes, its deleted once you are out of the free trial. Make another one now with the free resources and you should be good to go, make sure not to exceed the recommended limits.

@@acowardgaming Similar Issue, I cannot find my instance and I can no longer connect to the website, I have followed the video and did not increase any values. If you can help please do, I am at a loss at what to do. Edit: I cannot make a new instance because when I do it fails to retrieve information at the "selecting ubuntu" step.

@@xgaax I don't know why you are unable to make a new instance. My recommendation would be to contact oracle support, seems like its a problem on their end, with resource allocation. I wish I could help, but I don't know the circumstance as to why you aren't able to create a server instance.

Sorry to hear that it didn't work. I first tried using Bank of America credit card, and it didn't work, but it worked with a chase bank card. Not sure what the issue was, the oracle support had no idea. If you have a different card, its worth a shot. All the best.

@@acowardgaming I tried it today again with all the same things and it worked idk why

I am sorry it didn't work for you. Have you tried following the same steps manually from the wiki instead? Your comment has given me no description on what you have tried, and where in the process it didn't work. So I suggest a manual step by step approach in your case. There may be some step in the install process that may have changed during the v10 update. I will be glad to answer any questions you may have. Your comment didn't have a question, so I can't help yet. I will try to see if things work now that a new version is up and report back.

I just successfully installed foundry v10 using the same script. Based on what I have seen before, I can only think of one place that the issue may have happened. Did you choose the NodeJS/Linux version when you got the timed url from foundry's website? If you are on a windows system, it may default to windows, you have to manually choose the nodeJS version. If you did that correctly once more and still have problems let me know, I will find some time to help you out. Cheers.

I followed the steps nearly to the letter (v10 is a bit broken for me, so I only installed v9), but the problem is that, when I plug in the URL, it does nothing. It says that the site cannot be reached. I have to input the IP manually to get anything to work.

@@rubygamer8921 I see, which service did you use for your url? and how long has it been since the url was directed to point to an ip? Some dns services can take upto 24 hours to update their dns, noip is usually faster like 5 mins. I hope you are not using my url.

I didn't, I used my own, and I tried two services, Duck DNS and the one you showed, noip

you can do it in two ways, one is to restart just the foundry server but not the machine, using "sudo pm2 foundry restart" The other way, which I prefer is to update the machine with sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade commands, and then do a restart of the whole machine with "sudo shutdown -r now". The -r option is the restart option.

did you use the latest LTS version of Ubuntu, Oracle by default doesn't assign the latest. if one used 18.xx then the issue you mentioned shows up. Try again with 22.xx version.

@@acowardgaming I used the latest version of ubuntu, everything installed, however when I visit the no-ip nothing happens, when I restart it doesn't help. It's like foundry just wasn't launched.,

any update on this? I am unable to recreate this, I did a fresh install and it worked, I am sorry I can't be of any help at the moment, I am hoping that its just a delay in getting the domain name distributed, and hopefully it working now. But, if you figure it out, it would be a great help for others who might face the same issue.

@@acowardgaming Unfortunately I still haven't been able to get it working. I've accepted that I'll just have to host off my own pc for now

@@acowardgaming Well it's running foundry, I can connect through my site through no-ip using my keys. It's only just trying to visit the site not working.

yeah it looks like i don't have authorization to do anything on my own account :((

@@unodos2647 I wish I could help you on that, seems more like an oracle issue. Hopefully you can get in touch with their customer support, and they can help you out.

You are welcome. If you upload files from within the foundry interface, like tiles or journal entries etc, then foundry knows about it and can use it. If they are something else that needs to be loaded on boot, certain assets require that, then unfortunately there is not much one can do, but restart. I usually use drag upload module for most of my things inside foundry if I need something on the fly. Restarting the vm will restart foundry. I usually have a bat or shell or cmd file on my desktop to quickly restart foundry server.

I don't understand what you mean by table that appears after curl. It should download, can you post a screenshot somewhere and link here. Hopefully I we can figure out what is happening.

@@acowardgaming i solved it, basically it wasn't downloading because the instance was using a old VM (from a previous try to setup) that was not connecting properly for whatever reason, so i terminated the current instance and created a new VM and a second instance, and now it works. We also tried it up just yesterday evening, goes smoothly atm