Nothing to fully working server with RL map on Debian 7. Or just how to configure a dedicated server

[dominique120]

Hello people and welcome to another one of my very helpful and education tutorials. This time I bring you something that will help many many people out there, whether you want to set up your new dedicated server, want to learn how to set up a web server for whatever reason or want to learn a bit about compiling TFS 1.0 on Linux this is the place.

Now Sit back and PAY ATTENTION as we go through some interesting stuff here.

We need a few things before we can start, its best if you get them now before we proceed:
Debian 7 minimal with ssh(any type will do really, just make sure to apt-get install openssh-server to have openssh installed. Also if you already installed a LAMP stack or w/e it may cause trouble.)
PuTTY
Filezilla
Notepad++
Lets start by logging into our server:

Enter your credentials:

(If you are not logging on as a root user you must add sudo infront of all the commands we execute, or use su and continue normally.)
Now start by doing:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Now lets set up a LEMP stack with phpmyadmin:
First lets install MySQL:
Use:

apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql

During the process you will get this:

Enter a secure password, then confirm it in the next screen
After that wait a few seconds and it will be done

After that execute

mysql_install_db

Then we execute:

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

And enter your root password

It will then ask you if you want to change the root password, change it to something secure:
then y, n, y, y

And now MySQL is set up

Now lets setup our web server(nginx):

apt-get install nginx

Now start nginx

service nginx start

Now if you go to your IP adress and everything was successful you will see this

If you dont know your IP address you can use ifconfig to get it.
Now we must edit the config, this can be a bit tricky so be careful
Do:

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

(or any other editor you like, this is nano)
Then carefully do the following edits:

Uncomment the following lines in yellow(remove the #)

Uncomment these lines as well and add the one with the red arrow

Now save and exit

Now lets install PHP and configure it:

apt-get install php5-fpm

Now configure it

nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

Find:

cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

and change it to =0

If its commented with a ";" just remove the ;

Now we edit another file:

nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

look for "listen = 127..." and change it to "listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock"

Now save and exit.

And now restart php

service php5-fpm restart

Now we can test php to see if its configured by doing this:

nano /usr/share/nginx/www/info.php

Add the lines

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save and exit and restart nginx and test by doing:

service nginx restart

Then go to to see all the php info:
youripordomain.whatever/info.php

Now lets set up phpmyadmin
Get it by using

apt-get install phpmyadmin

You will be prompted to install for either lighthttpd or apache, just press tab then enter to configure for none. After that the install will ask you something about a database, press yes, then for some passwords, remember to set strong passwords.

Now we are going to link phpmyadmin to nginx

ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/www

Then restart nginx by using

service nginx restart

Now lets enter phpmyadmin by going to youripordomain.whatever/phpmyadmin
enter a user and password. If you are unsure use root and the pass you set during installation.

Continued on next post...

 

[dominique120]

Now lets get to actually setting up our website and server. Lets start by importing the TFS 1.0 schema and adding the tables for Znotes AAC 1.5

But first lets create a new user and create a database.

Go to privileges and under the table with users and stuff press on add a new user like this:

For this tutorial I'll use tfs/tfs
Now hit F5 on your keyboard and you'll see your new database to the left

Ok now lets import our TFS 1.0 schema
Select the database and on the top press on import

Then hit GO

Then it should say:

Now lets move our website files to the server(I'll be using Znotes AAC):
Open up Filezilla(or whatever you want)
and do the following:
Enter your credentials at the op like so(same ones you used to login at the very beginning)

then wait for it to connect and after that do this

Drag and drop all your website files to /usr/share/nginx/www on the server
Then restart nginx

service nginx restart

Now go to "youripordomain.whatever/index.php"
And you should see this:

No worries, copy all that is in the box from step two and paste it in phpmyadmin like this:

Then hit go

You will get no confirmation of success or failure, but usually it works, later we'll see if we got any errors or not.

Next lets configure Znotes AAC to use our database:
Edit the file on the server like this:

And edit like this:

Remember I'm using my own values, edit them to match what you configured ones. Also, dont forget to set TFS version to TFS_10
Then save and exit notepad++ and go back to filezilla
After a few secs you will get this:

Press yes.
Now we must do 2 more edits to the nginx config

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

And edit like this:

Uncomment whats underlined and change index.html to index.php where it is circled. Then save and restart nginx

service nginx restart

Now you can reach your website simply by going to "youripordomain.whatever"

So no go to "youripordomain.whatever" to see if the database was properly configured.

It is in our case as you can see here:

Great now lets get down to compiling TFS 1.0
Lets get our terminal window again and run the following commands:

cd

apt-get install git cmake build-essential liblua5.2-dev libgmp3-dev libmysqlclient-dev libboost-system-dev

If you get missing files or dependencies or no such package, run apt-get update and upgrade, or add newer repositories.

Now lets clone the git project:

git clone https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver.git

Then

cd forgottenserver

Followed by

mkdir build && cd build

Generate our build files

cmake ..

And finally to build

make

After a success build you'll see this:

Now lets set up our server files. I'll be using @Printers RL datapack.

Lets create a directory and more our new executable there, if you are not root, replace the /root/ with the user you are on now.

mkdir /root/tfs && mv /root/forgottenserver/build/tfs /root/tfs/tfs
cd /root/tfs

Now lets get printers pack and drop the data, and the config.lua file to our new directory.
Download it from here:
Extract it where ever you want
And now lets transfer the files over to our server

Now lets set up config.lua(the same way we edited config.php):

Remember to match your own settings!

Now lets start it up with

cd /root/tfs
./tfs

It will do its usual start with the log and all that then you will get:

And ther you go, you just set up LEMP, PHPMyAdmin, Compiled TFS 1.0 from the source, set up a datapack and a website for your OT.

You are ready to go!

Credits to @Printer for letting me use his datapack
And to @Mark because the compiling TFS part comes from the github wiki that he wrote.

NOTES:
Add your website files to

/usr/share/nginx/www

and then restart nginx

service nginx restart

And your server files to /root/tfs

to start tfs:

cd /root/tfs
./tfs

And to quit just use CTRL+C

 

[dominique120]

Reserved for FAQ

 

[dominique120]

All tips, comments, feedback and recommendations are welcome!

 

[Printer]

This was great tutorial, it will help many people with linux Good job!

 

[dominique120]

This was great tutorial, it will help many people with linux Good job!

Thanks! and I sure hope so, I also hope it means people will switch to hosting on Linux

 

[WibbenZ]

Great, create one for ubuntu 12.04, gesior

 

[dominique120]

Great, create one for ubuntu 12.04, gesior

Took me like 5 hours to do this one lol. Ubuntu is Debian based so its probably exactly the same (in 13 the www folder is in a different place afaik), and well if you can set up Znote you can probably set up Gesior as well. I might extend the tutorial, but first I want @Mark to accept the pull request for the shell I did to make the second part easier.

 

[Erick Machoski]

Nice !!

You can help me with this ?

root@Machoski:~/tfs# ./tfs
The Forgotten Server - Version 1.0
Compilied on Jan 20 2014 22:50:37 for arch x64

A server developed by Mark Samman
Visit our forum for updates, support, and resources: http://otland.net/.

>> Loading config
>> Establishing database connection... MySQL 5.5.34
>> Running database manager
>> Loading vocations
>> Loading items
>> Loading script systems
>> Loading monsters
>> Loading outfits
>> Checking world type... PVP
>> Loading map
> Map size: 64000x64000.
Killed

Tks !

 

[dominique120]

@Erick Machoski the server ran out of ram, how much do you have?

 

[Erick Machoski]

@Erick Machoski the server ran out of ram, how much do you have?

Its too Low ?

Configuration
Operating System :

ubuntu-12.04.3_64bit Server
RAM : 1024MB
Disk Storage : 40GB

 

[dominique120]

@Erick Machoski way to low for an RL map server, you need at least 4Gb

 

[Erick Machoski]

@Erick Machoski way to low for an RL map server, you need at least 4Gb

Which map i can run ?

 

[dominique120]

Which map i can run ?

A small EVO map, look at Znizus EvoRPG map, that one is small and does not use a lot of RAM afaik

 

[Damon]

Now lets get to actually setting up our website and server. Lets start by importing the TFS 1.0 schema and adding the tables for Znotes AAC 1.5

But first lets create a new user and create a database.

Go to privileges and under the table with users and stuff press on add a new user like this:

For this tutorial I'll use tfs/tfs
Now hit F5 on your keyboard and you'll see your new database to the left

Ok now lets import our TFS 1.0 schema
Select the database and on the top press on import

Then hit GO

Then it should say:

Now lets move our website files to the server(I'll be using Znotes AAC):
Open up Filezilla(or whatever you want)
and do the following:
Enter your credentials at the op like so(same ones you used to login at the very beginning)

then wait for it to connect and after that do this

Drag and drop all your website files to /usr/share/nginx/www on the server
Then restart nginx

service nginx restart

Now go to "youripordomain.whatever/index.php"
And you should see this:

No worries, copy all that is in the box from step two and paste it in phpmyadmin like this:

Then hit go

You will get no confirmation of success or failure, but usually it works, later we'll see if we got any errors or not.

Next lets configure Znotes AAC to use our database:
Edit the file on the server like this:

And edit like this:

Remember I'm using my own values, edit them to match what you configured ones. Also, dont forget to set TFS version to TFS_10
Then save and exit notepad++ and go back to filezilla
After a few secs you will get this:

Press yes.
Now we must do 2 more edits to the nginx config

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

And edit like this:

Uncomment whats underlined and change index.html to index.php where it is circled. Then save and restart nginx

service nginx restart

Now you can reach your website simply by going to "youripordomain.whatever"

So no go to "youripordomain.whatever" to see if the database was properly configured.

It is in our case as you can see here:

Great now lets get down to compiling TFS 1.0
Lets get our terminal window again and run the following commands:

cd

apt-get install git cmake build-essential liblua5.2-dev libgmp3-dev libmysqlclient-dev libboost-system-dev

If you get missing files or dependencies or no such package, run apt-get update and upgrade, or add newer repositories.

Now lets clone the git project:

git clone https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver.git

Then

cd forgottenserver

Followed by

mkdir build && cd build

Generate our build files

cmake ..

And finally to build

make

After a success build you'll see this:

Now lets set up our server files. I'll be using @Printers RL datapack.

Lets create a directory and more our new executable there

mkdir /root/tfs && mv /root/forgottenserver/build/tfs /root/tfs/tfs
cd /root/tfs

Now lets get printers pack and drop the data, and the config.lua file to our new directory.
Download it from here:
Extract it where ever you want
And now lets transfer the files over to our server

Now lets set up config.lua(the same way we edited config.php):

Remember to match your own settings!

Now lets start it up with

cd /root/tfs
./tfs

It will do its usual start with the log and all that then you will get:

And ther you go, you just set up LEMP, PHPMyAdmin, Compiled TFS 1.0 from the source, set up a datapack and a website for your OT.

You are ready to go!

Credits to @Printer for letting me use his datapack
And to @Mark because the compiling TFS part comes from the github wiki that he wrote.

NOTES:
Add your website files to

/usr/share/nginx/www

and then restart nginx

service nginx restart

And your server files to /root/tfs

to start tfs:

cd /root/tfs
./tfs

And to quit just use CTRL+C

Awesome!

 

[dominique120]

Awesome!

Thanks!

 

[Slain Reaper]

whats wrong? =/

 

[dominique120]

@Slain Reaper What OS is it?

 

[Slain Reaper]

Linux-

• Debian 7.0 x64

 

[Dark Sikis]

work with debian 6.0?