AlwaysMOTD - BuiltByOtte Documentation

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Important: This addon only adds some files to your nodes. Because of that, these steps need to be done on your Wings server , not the panel.

Installation

Create the AlwaysMOTD directory and upload the files:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/alwaysmotd

cd /opt/alwaysmotd

Upload all AlwaysMOTD files to /opt/alwaysmotd using SFTP or your preferred file transfer method.

Install Node.js and project dependencies:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

npm install

If you use UFW (Standard on an Pterodactyl installation) or another firewall, you got to open the following ports:

4001, 4002, 4003 and 4004.

If you use UFW, run this command:

sudo ufw allow 4001:4004/tcp

Edit config.yml with your Pterodactyl API keys and port range:

nano config.yml

Setting	Description
Panel URL	Your Pterodactyl panel URL
Application API Key	Application API key with server read and allocation read permissions
Client API Key	Client API key generated from an admin account.
Port Range	Range of ports to monitor for offline servers
MOTD Message	Custom message to display when server is offline

Install PM2 and start the service:

sudo npm install -g pm2

sudo pm2 start index.js --name alwaysmotd

sudo pm2 save
sudo pm2 startup

Command	Description
`sudo pm2 status`	Check status
`sudo pm2 logs alwaysmotd`	View logs
`sudo pm2 restart alwaysmotd`	Restart AlwaysMOTD (Apply changes in `config.yml` )
`sudo pm2 stop alwaysmotd`	Stop AlwaysMOTD

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