Running without installation

Running without installation

MistServer can be started without installing it, simply by extracting all its binaries to a single folder and executing the MistController. It will by default store its configuration in the current working directory as config.json.

It will walk you through a first-time setup on the command line, and then start listening for requests as well as make available the API port and configuration interface. Many choose to run MistServer in a screen session during testing or if they do not have root access to the machine MistServer needs to run on.

Do note that some of MistServer's automatic error recovery features will not function properly when not running as a system service.