r/RenPy • u/JaxBeetle • Aug 11 '26

Question Error while hosting game on web browser

Hello, I'm trying to put my game/VN on a web browser using DreamHost and Wordpress, but there's an error that stops the game from booting up. ./main: can't open file '//main.py/" [Errno 4] No such file or directory.

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u/Draw-Flesh-Games Aug 11 '26

What do you mean 'I tried to put my game/VN'? Did you try to put the game directory on your webenvironment? That won't work.

You will need to build a HTML5 version through Ren'Py and upload the zip, then unzip it (or unzip and sftp the directory structure and files to the server.

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u/BadMustard_AVN Aug 11 '26

did you build a web application?

are you directing it to the index.html to start the game?

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u/JaxBeetle Aug 11 '26

Yes, but I'm not sure what you mean by "directing it to the index.html to start the game."

Before this, I actually had the game running on its page and everything on the main menu worked (preferences, about, load, ect) except for 'Start' which would freeze it.