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1.

Go to your DNS Registrar - E.G Namecheap, Google Domains, Namecom etc....

For this example i will be using Cloudflare

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2.

Locate your DNS Records

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3.

Add an "A Record"

With the following information

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4.

You will need to be able to access your servers terminal for these following steps

$  sudo apt update

$  sudo apt install apache2

List the ufw application profiles by typing:

$  sudo ufw app list

You will receive a list of the application profiles:

Output
Available applications:
  Apache
  Apache Full
  Apache Secure
  OpenSSH

As indicated by the output, there are three profiles available for Apache:

Apache: This profile opens only port 80 (normal, unencrypted web traffic)

Apache Full: This profile opens both port 80 (normal, unencrypted web traffic) and port 443 (TLS/SSL encrypted traffic)

Apache Secure: This profile opens only port 443 (TLS/SSL encrypted traffic)

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5.

Enable the following Apache Modules

$  sudo a2enmod proxy
$  sudo a2enmod proxy_http
$  sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer
$  sudo a2enmod lbmethod_byrequests

Restart Apache

$  sudo systemctl restart apache2

6.

Configuring our webserver

$  cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

Once you run ls you should see 000-default.conf

Copying the default configuration

$  cp 000-default.conf dashboard.conf

nano dashboard.conf

Edit the default configuration to the below configuration

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        #ServerName www.example.com

        ServerName yourdomain.com
        ProxyRequests On
        ProxyPreserveHost On

        ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ # <-- Change the port if your bot is running on a different port
        ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

Press CTRL + X or Command-X for Mac then press Enter to save changes

Now run the following command

$  a2ensite dashboard.conf

$  systemctl reload apache2

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7.

Setting up our Discord application redirect

Go to discord.dev and go to your application -> Oauth2 -> General

Add 2 Redirects with the following contents

important -> Change http and https depending if you have SSL or not!

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8.

Now you should be able to access and login to your bots dashboard!

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Optional: Setting up SSL

certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=apache&..

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Written by River

CEO @ AIO Tech Ltd

CEO @ Seven Seas Hosting

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