Custom workflow - How to go from single server to multiple?

I have been working on a project that involves developing a custom workflow activity for SharePoint 2013. I am developing it in a single server environment working with http. My problem occurs when deploying to multi-server environment with https (WFE, APP).
My question is how to deploy my solution to the new environment.
The steps:
Create a project - c# activity library
Add a workflow activity, add .xml
Deploy the .dll and .xml of project to "C:\Program Files\Workflow Manager\1.0\Workflow\Artifacts" "C:\Program
Files\Workflow Manager\1.0\Workflow\WFWebRoot\bin"
net sotp "Workflow Manager Backend"
net start "Workflow Manager Backend"
gacutil to deploy the .dll to GAC
iisrest
Create a project - empty SharePoint 2013 project
Add a workflow custom activity to project
Edit .actions4 and .xaml (my custom code from previous project is in this project now that i can drag and drop in .xaml)
Deploy to server, activate feature, open SharePoint Designer 2013 and choose the custom action that now appears when creating a 2013 workflow
This all works fine and dandy on my single server environment. Workflow is working like a charm. How should I go about deploying this to a multi-server environment with https? Does that server need Visual Studio on it also? I have continued to deploy the
.dll and .xml to the workflow manager backend folders. I have continued to deploy the .dll to the GAC also. When I upload the solution to the new site, it continues to work. When I open designer to create the workflow, it breaks and i cannot create or edit
any of the workflows on that site. Do i need to be doing something different because i am going from a http environment to https?
Let me know if this is unclear or if anyone needs more information. Thanks

If I understand correctly, your workflow still working fine in multi-servers farm but having problem in SharePoint designer. As far as I understand your custom activities should be deployed in the server where your workflow manager is running. Good architecture
would be to put the workflow in app server (or in it's separate server). But if you are also using HTTPs in multi-server farm whereas the workflow configured over HTTP, you might need to register the workflow (I'm not quite sure though, so you can try in some
test environment first).
I've worked with SharePoint 2013 workflow but I intentionally didn't develop custom activity. Rather I develop custom WCF service in SharePoint. And then used the service from workflow. This is how I could use a separate dedicated server for workflow (if
needed ever) without having any reference to SharePoint DLLs from inside workflow.
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com

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