Using Digital Ocean to run OSBot, start to finish

[Lemons]

Using Digital Ocean for OSBot
 
Referral code
Since I took the time to write this, I’m gonna be a shill and say use my referral code:
 
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=49d74b3ac319
 
This will give you $10 in free credits along with giving me $25 once you deposit $25 real monies. I believe you only need to deposit $5 to get the $10 credit, else hookup a credit card (don’t quote me).

 

Fast Method (alternative to all the stuff below)

I made a script that will take care of all these issues for you. Simply setup a VPS (as below), and once you have a SSH Terminal run:

apt-get install curl
bash <(curl -sL http://git.io/vWPiu)

- It will ask you for a username, password, and VNC password. Enter these.

- Wait for it to say something about rebooting.

- Reboot, wait 10 seconds and connect to <dropletip>:5901 with a VNC client and enter your VNC password.

- Login to OSBot client.

 

This scripts source can be viewed by visiting http://git.io/vWPiu or https://gist.github.com/Lem0ns/52ccbf8d5038e8f2f446

 

 

Making the VPS
 
This only has to be done once, then all future VPSs will be ready on creation!
 
Step 1 - Create the Droplet
 
Give it a hostname, then choose any size you’d like. I personally use the 512mb droplets as they are enough for the scripts I am using. If you need more resources you may want to get a larger package, this is mostly experimentation.
 

 
Select a region, then pick “Ubuntu” as the OS. I personally use 14.04 32-bit as its easiest to work with and has long term support.
 

 
Step 2 - While we wait
 

 
You will learn this screen lies, and just always says “30 seconds”. While we wait, please download PuTTY if you are on windows:
 
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
 
This program allows us to execute commands in a remote setting. If you are on linux/mac you will just use the ‘ssh’ terminal command.
 
Step 3 - Connect to VPS
 

 
We are now ready to connect using PuTTY! Open putty.exe and you’ll be faced with:
 

 
Enter the IP of your VPS then hit “Open”, then on the window that pops up “Yes”. Now login as “root” and enter the password you got in the email they sent you. Once you login it will ask you to change your password, do so. Note this is NOT the account we will be using, but make it secure regardless and unique if possible.

 
Step 4 - Make a non-sudo user
 
Now you should have a prompt. First thing we are going to do is make a new user. Note when I give commands that # and $ are not part of it, just shows its entered into a prompt.

# adduser botter

This will prompt you to enter a password and some details (Just hit enter for nothing), then enter for Yes (captial letter = default choice).
 

 
Now we have a non-sudo user. To fix this, simply do:

# adduser botter sudo

 
Now disconnect and reconnect as that user (botter).
 
Step 5 - Installing a desktop environment
 
Now we need to make it so we have a GUI. We will install lxde, as its lightweight and does what we need:

$ sudo apt-get update

For those interested, the # turned to $ as this user is not root. Running the command will spew a list of urls (these list all the packages available in repos). Wait until it finishes, then:

$ sudo apt-get install lxde

This will display a large block of text (a ton of packages it will install, don’t worry). Just hit enter and then wait as your desktop is installed.
 
Step 6 - Installing VNC
 
Now we install VNC:

$ sudo apt-get install x11vnc

 
Now it needs a password file to authenticate users, create one by doing:

$ x11vnc -storepasswd /home/botter/vncpasswd

 
It will prompt you with a password, then a confirmation on the location of the file. After this, we need to add this command to the startup. Run:

$ sudo nano /etc/rc.local

and after all the blue comments but before the green exit 0, put:

x11vnc -forever -xkb -noxrecord -noxfixes -noxdamage -display :0 -auth /var/run/lxdm/lxdm-\:0.auth -rfbauth /home/botter/vncpasswd

 

 
Now press Ctrl-X and then the Y key, and enter. Finally, we do:
 
Step 7 - Setup swap space
Just as a precaution, and since 512mb is so small, we setup some swap space to make our lives easier. Just enter all these commands and tada, swap:

$ sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
$ sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
$ sudo mkswap /swapfile
$ sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10

$ sudo nano /etc/fstab

 
That last command edits a file, at the end of it put:

/swapfile   none    swap    sw    0   0

Now for all this to take effect, we must restart:

$ sudo reboot

This will reboot the server with the new LXDE desktop environment, VNC, and swap in action!
 
Step 8 - Connecting via VNC
 
If you don’t have a VNC client, or even if you do, I suggest TigerVNC for connecting. Its pretty damn fast, and most of the time I get 20fps+ on a connection.
 
Download from https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.4.3
 
When you open it TigerVNC, enter your IP into the box and press connect. It will prompt you for a password, use the password you made. You should now see your VPS desktop!
 

 
Step 9 - Install Java 8
 
Open a terminal over VNC, or reconnect using putty. Either way, once your ready, enter:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

This will begin the Java installer, which will ask you to accept the license and then will download and install the package. After this is complete, you got java!
Step 10 - Install Chromium
I like to have a browser installed, so:

$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Step 11 - Download OSBot
I make some scripts which ease this process. First start up leafpad, then make a file containing:

#!/bin/bash
wget http://osbot.org/mvc/get -O osbot.jar

Save this to the desktop as “OSBotUpdate.sh”, now make a new file and put:

#!/bin/bash
if ls osbot\ *.jar 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then
   mv osbot\ *.jar osbot.jar
fi
 
java -jar osbot.jar

 
Save this file as “OSBotRun.sh”. Now, go to your desktop and change both files Permissions to allow executing by the owner only. Just right-click the file, Properties, then the second tab and select “Owner only” in the Execute dropdown.

 
Step 12 - Creating a backup to use when creating new Droplets
Do anything you want to be easily replicated onto other servers before this! You can always take another snapshot, so don’t worry too much.
Now go to DigitalOcean’s website and power off the machine. Then click on “Snapshots”, give it a name, and click “Take Snapshot”. It will take a while, once the process is done you can startup the VPS and start botting. Note I didn’t have you login to OSBot as it wipes the user info on new VPSs.
 
Step 13 - Creating more VPSs
Now when you create a VPS, go to the “Snapshot” section and select your snapshot instead of choosing Ubuntu.

Thats it!

Edited December 30, 2016 by Lemons

[Czar]

Wow amazing guide man, thanks

[Nicholas]

when doing i try to store passwd it says the file doesnt exist please help ive been trying for 3 hours

[Lemons]

when doing i try to store passwd it says the file doesnt exist please help ive been trying for 3 hours

 

This guide hasn't even been out 3 hours. Also, more details. What did you try, how did it fail?

[Nicholas]

This guide hasn't even been out 3 hours. Also, more details. What did you try, how did it fail?

i got past that part. i know ive been googling and gotten pure and utterbullshit  with guides which are meant for people that have a clue in what theyre doing

im legit crying rn, thanks so fucking much, you are a life saver

i want your children

crap lmfao, now it wont open broswer.. any help?

[Fruity]

Followed this tutorial about 10 times and not once has it worked :3. at the \ect\rc.local never works my TigerVNC thing cant even connect to the VPS either because cant get past the rc.local thing. when i type it in i and you say about after all the blue text. i dont get that

I'm using the consol on the website because I'm on Mac and fk knows how to work terminal Edited April 8, 2015 by HQXU

[Lemons]

 

Followed this tutorial about 10 times and not once has it worked :3. at the \ect\rc.local never works my TigerVNC thing cant even connect to the VPS either because cant get past the rc.local thing. when i type it in i and you say about after all the blue text. i dont get that

I'm using the consol on the website because I'm on Mac and fk knows how to work terminal

 

 

 

See the blue text, and the green exit, and how the command I told you to input is between them? Once the /etc/rc.local (don't use \ in linux) looks like that, reboot and the VNC will show up.

[Fruity]

 

I Don't get that blue text

Edited April 8, 2015 by HQXU

[Lemons]

 

ect != etc

[Fruity]

ect != etc

 

Brb while i just face desk a few times

welp 1 problem down one comes up. 

[Lemons]

Brb while i just face desk a few times

welp 1 problem down one comes up. 

 

Show me contents of the rc.local file

[Fruity]

 

How from here

[Lemons]

 

How from here

 

Double click the user (botter), or whichever you plan on using.

[Fruity]

Double click the user (botter), or whichever you plan on using.

 

Im guessing click it and log in but when I'm logged i i get a 3-5cm out of sun mouse so i can't click anything because imusing the online console because i can't connect to it in any other way. i get a time out error or something to do with port 22

 

I have gotten unto the installing of OSBOT but i can't type a # in the vnc -.- I'm on mac and it won't let me type it lol.

 

SORRY FOR BEING A NUB AT THIS.

Edited April 8, 2015 by HQXU

[Fruity]

omg i got it working! much love thank you ;)