dom 2 dedicated server proggie?

[Gandalf Parker]

To DimmurWyrd or anyone else interested in the subject of a server, here is some info which has gone before.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...4;t=000088;p=1

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=000229#000009

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...220;p=3#000039

There is another I thnk where someone mentioned a PHP CGi could be made to allow drag-n-drop. Or even a 1-button pickup since the path, directory and file name would always be the same. That bit is the only part I havent got a working plan for but apparently there are examples available Online.

[DimmurWyrd]

ok, reading those back threads now... however one thing might make things infinitely easy on me.

Right now the hosting through commandline frontend would take me about 30-40 minutes roughly for a single game Version and probably another 30-40 to give it near-infinite game capacity. It's just that easy with VB. The holdup is being able to send/recieve files to an appropriate directory and the ability to setup a game both via the web. basically it would work fine doing it all through FTP and a game options file to create a new game. but that would leave less compliterates out. Not to mention you need the web interface to get most people interested/aware.

In other words we desperately need someone who is good at working with web based DB's hehe. I have no idea what can be done in VBScript as I've never tried. It's an option at compile time but how it affects the display and such I just don't know.

[Gandalf Parker]

The RyanZA guy on here gave me a great link to
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php
which does seem to answer that. I havent played with it yet but I was hoping that it might be modified to do just one thing. Such as...
If the game is called Game123 and had Man as one of the players then there could be a Game123/man.html which offers a clickable link to upload C:\Progra~1\dominions2\Game123\man.2h and it could offer a link to download Man.trn

[ January 19, 2004, 17:18: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[DimmurWyrd]

ok, looking into that while finishing the SP launcher.

[DimmurWyrd]

erp! probably does what is needed but I'd have to learn HTML and PHP to use it hehe... a project for a time when I have that much lol.