AWS EC2 Instance

[srepollock]

Hi there,

I've set up Docker on an EC2 instance, it has the files, ports are open in EC2 side, but I'm unable to set up the server. Wondering if I can get some extra help?

version: "3"
services:
  valheim:
    image: mbround18/valheim:latest
    ports:
      - 2456:2456/udp
      - 2457:2457/udp
      - 2458:2458/udp
    environment:
      - PORT=2456
      - NAME="Valheim World"
      - WORLD="World Name"
      - PASSWORD="1234"
      - TZ=America/California
      - PUBLIC=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE="0 1 * * *"
      - AUTO_BACKUP=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE="*/15 * * * *"
      - AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE=3
      - AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN=1
      - UPDATE_ON_STARTUP=0
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
    volumes:
      - ./valheim/saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
      - ./valheim/server:/home/steam/valheim
      - ./valheim/backups:/home/steam/backups

[CosmicHorrorDev]

Can you expand on what you mean by "unable to setup the server"? Does it seem like it launches but you can't connect, hit an error, etc?

[srepollock]

None of the connect buttons work, the game just says <not responding>

[CosmicHorrorDev]

I've only seen for a server that was down. Can you try restarting the container to see if that somehow fixes it?

If it doesn't then I'm out of ideas. I can try querying it, or connecting if you feel comfortable sending me the ip and port. You can find my email under my profile, and you don't have to send me the password.

[srepollock]

I've restarted the container a few times, and it's not connecting. Not that I don't want to give you the IP and port, I would just need to set up / run another instance to do it. I'm unsure where to go from here as well.

I'm trying to get this running so that I can have the server running not on my machine.

[srepollock]

Going to put a pin in this for now. Thank you for the assistance @LovecraftianHorror. I will update here with any findings, or if others have some insight, it would be greatly appreciated!

[CosmicHorrorDev]

Sounds good. Wish we could have figured out the issue, hopefully someone else can shed some light on this

[tateexon]

I have this running on an aws ec2. If you are still having problems I can try to help.
My current setup:
I built an ami using my ami with docker/docker-compose helper: https://github.com/tateexon/ec2_docker_ami_builder
I created a security group with these inbound rules:
Custom UDP, Port Range 2456-2458, 0.0.0.0/0
Custom UDP, Port Range 2456-2458, ::/0
Custom TCP, Port Range 2456-2458, 0.0.0.0/0
Custom TCP, Port Range 2456-2458, ::/0
SSH, Port 22, set to my ip so I could ssh into it, I then removed this after I got the server working
I then created an ec2 instance using the ami from the cloudformation script with a size of t3.medium (found smaller sizes would crash or have weird issues) with 10 gigs of hard drive.
When creating the ec2 I added the security group mentioned earlier.
ssh'd into the box, added the docker-compose.yml file, created the valheim directory, and ran docker-compose up --detach
compose file:

version: "3"
services:
  valheim:
    image: mbround18/valheim:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 2456:2456/udp
      - 2457:2457/udp
      - 2458:2458/udp
    environment:
      - PORT=2456
      - NAME="Created With Valheim Docker"
      - WORLD="Dedicated"
      - PASSWORD="Strong! Password @ Here"
      - TZ=America/Chicago
      - PUBLIC=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE="0 1 * * *"
      - AUTO_BACKUP=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE="*/15 * * * *"
      - AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE=7
      - AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN=1
      - WEBHOOK_URL="discord url change me or omit if you aren't using me"
      - UPDATE_ON_STARTUP=1
    volumes:
      - ./valheim/saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
      - ./valheim/server:/home/steam/valheim
      - ./valheim/backups:/home/steam/backups

I am unable to get the yaml to format correctly here, sorry. It is the same yaml used in the projects readme except I added restart: unless-stopped between image and ports.

[srepollock]

Thank you for the information and update @tateexon . Interestingly though I re-started my t2.medium instance and connected right away (no changes to any of the above settings). Perhaps there was just a time delay with the elastic IP's I was setting; not quite sure to be frank.

[tateexon]

Very glad to hear you got it working!