Set up your Discord Bot

Introduction

With a Discord bot server, you can run Discord bots continuously, which can, for example, automatically moderate your Discord channel, play music, conduct giveaways and polls, and much more. A Discord bot server from ZAP-Hosting is configurable by simply uploading your required files via FTP. ZAP-Hosting’s Discord bot servers support the languages NodeJS, Java and Python.

How to set up a Discord bot server and upload bot files!

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Preparation

In order to be able to set up your Bot, the FTP access needs to be configured. Once you are connected using FTP, you need to open thediscordbot folder, this is where the files of the bot have to be uploaded:

Provided you have opened the folder, you can now simply upload the bot files into the empty folder:

Configuration

To be able to run your bot using the Dashboard, the bot needs to be configured using the "Settings" Page:

Here you now have to configure which programming language the Bot uses, and how it's main file is called. In our case this will be Python 3 Programming Language and the main.py start file.

Test bot functionality

After saving the Settings, the bot can simply be started using the green start button at the top of the page. In the Live-Console you can then check if the bot has successfully started!