Any plans for an "official" hosting server?

[PhilD]

Sure we do! Coming back for more, or are you just here to say hello?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Not really sure It's a mite expensive, and I'm not sure if I will play it enough to justify it. But I have some time to think about it

I read around a bit... seems you have had some problems with the server. Really, you should just have emailed me (and again, if I didn't reply, I sometimes miss the important messages in all the spam/mailinglists).

Oh, and my offer of the source code is of course still valid. From what I've read, the code should run more or less unmodified I suppose the thing still need all those libs? :/

Hehe, I had forgotten my own sig. I love that quote

And hi everyone Good to see you all again

[Ygorl]

Hey, welcome back!
I'd love to see the source code for your (very nice) web page. I'd be happy to have a clone of it up and running for people to play on...

Thanks!

[Endoperez]

I'm sorry to say that I don't remember Esben, but Mose Hansen is a legend from a more heroic era, of one of the greatest victories for the MP community. Welcome back! Maybe I'll learn your full name this time around.

[Gandalf Parker]

*whew* big sigh of relief. Glad to see you back EMH.
You want a login?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Ok, I have finally managed to pack up the pages

Installation instructions, very quickly )

1. Setup apache+modperl+ssl
2. unpack http://www.mosehansen.dk/dom-hosting.tar.bz2 in cgi-bin, or a subdirectory thereof
3. copy dom.css to some suitable place, like htdocs (must be accessible, e.g. as /dom.css
4. Setup db:
4a. mysql -u root -p
4b. create database dom3
4c. grant ALL on dom3.* TO dom3@localhost IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD "498fDj398d";
4d. quit
5d. mysql -u dom3 -p dom3 < dom.sql
5. copy dom2host.conf.template to dom2host.conf and adjust usernames, password, roots and whatever you think appropriate
6. fire up pages. Create yourself as a user.
7. Make yourself root:
7a. mysql -u dom3 -o dom3
7b. update player set group_name = 'root' where player_name = 'myname';
7c. quit
8. Find out how to install the key. I think it goes into "(null)"/dominions3/key", but it's a bit hazy now.

It is also useful to know that the games leaves a game_name.log file with everything the game outputs and more. You might want to delete these occasionally, too, though I never bothered to.

From there, everything should be peachy. When something goes wrong, feel free to ask me

Gandalf: Login? To where?

[Gandalf Parker]

Esben Mose Hansen said:
Gandalf: Login? To where?

To my servers
In case it would be helpful to your working on some project.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

oh, thanks I have my own server for now, though, and as long as I don't actually own a copy of dom3...

It might be good to have more servers if the popularity goes ballistic like it did in dom2. Or maybe I should do an file-based server this time around. Maybe a job for Ruby... ON RAILS!!!

[Kristoffer O]

Esben Mose Hansen said:
oh, thanks I have my own server for now, though, and as long as I don't actually own a copy of dom3...

I will gladly give you a copy of Dom3 for all you have done in the past and hope that you find the time and energy to do the same in the future. You have been most appreciated. We as well as the fans owe you great!

PM me or send a mail to kristoffer(at)illwinter.com if you want a copy.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Kristoffer O said:
I will gladly give you a copy of Dom3 for all you have done in the past and hope that you find the time and energy to do the same in the future. You have been most appreciated. We as well as the fans owe you great!

PM me or send a mail to kristoffer(at)illwinter.com if you want a copy.

Wow. That was totally unexpected. I would be grateful and very honered to accept! I have emailed you my address. Thank you