LHammonds Tutorials

Post on Steam Here is a batch file that can help you with making backups of your single player maps. Every time you run the batch file, it will create an archive of each map and will include a timestamp in the filename. Each subsequent run will create new archives each time without worry of overrid...

Upgrading phpBB The download page for phpbb does a pretty-good job of telling you how to upgrade phpBB. It can get a bit confusing if you are upgrading very old versions of phpBB so here is what I did to upgrade 3.0.8 to 3.2.0 which required (for me) upgrading to specific versions in between. Pre-U...

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Install phpBB At the login prompt, login with your administrator account ( administrator / myadminpass ) and then temporarily grant yourself super user privileges by typing sudo su Type the following commands: mkdir /var/www/forum.mydomain.com cd /tmp wget https://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-...

Install Required phpBB Libraries Type the following to install the required libraries: apt -y install php7.2-json Install Optional phpBB Libraries Type the following to install the optional libraries: apt -y install php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php-imagick PHP Module Verification Make sure the modules you ...

Configure MariaDB / MySQL In this scenario, a dedicated and general-purpose database server already exists and it will be used to hold the application's database. Connect to the MariaDB/MySQL server using PuTTY. At the login prompt, login with your administrator account ( administrator / myadminpas...

Create Ubuntu Web Server Click here for detailed instructions on setting up a production-quality Ubuntu Server . Once you have the base operating system installed, proceed to follow these instructions to install Apache web server . When it talks about setting up your web root, be sure to substitute...

------------- WORK-IN-PROGRESS ------------- Overview phpBB is a free PHP-based bulletin board forum software. This documentation will describe the steps to manually install the software onto a dedicated web server and tie it into a separate dedicated database server which is typical of a productio...

------------- WORK-IN-PROGRESS ------------- WARNING - I have used VMware ESXi for years for all my hypervisor needs and as such, KVM as a replacement will be new to me and this is my "learning area" as I go. Greetings and salutations, I hope this thread will be helpful to those who follow in my fo...

Player List Script for Web Page This bash script will update a web page for each instance to show all known players. The web page(s) should be pulled into your main web page via an include statment because the script re-creates the page each time. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var...

Shutdown Script This bash script will notify online players of a pending shutdown and then proceed to shutdown each instance. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-shutdown.sh sudo chown root:root /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-shutdown.sh sudo chmod 700 /var/scripts/prod/sd...

Backup Script This bash script will create a full backup of your maps and notify players in-game when the backup starts and finishes. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-backup.sh sudo chown root:root /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-backup.sh sudo chmod 700 /var/scripts/pro...

World Size Script for Web Page This bash script will update a web page to show the current world size for each instance you have. The web page should be pulled into your main web page via an include statment because the script re-creates the page each time. Create the file to hold the script: sudo ...

Day Count Script for Web Page This bash script will update a web page to show the current day counts for each instance you have. The web page should be pulled into your main web page via an include statment because the script re-creates the page each time. Create the file to hold the script: sudo t...

Horde Notification Script This bash script will send out a notification to online players once per day in the morning as to when horde night will be arriving. Create the file to hold the script: sudo touch /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-horde-notify.sh sudo chown root:root /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-horde-noti...

Custom Plugin - Check Uptime /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_uptime.sh #!/bin/bash ############################################# ## Name : check_uptime.sh ## Version : 1.1 ## Date : 2019-11-13 ## Author : LHammonds ## Compatibility : Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS ## Requirements : None ## Optional : ## Par...

Restart Script The server instance can shutdown from time to time due to a crash or whatnot. This script is designed to check on the running status of a particular instance and start it if not running. Create the script file and set appropriate permissions: sudo touch /var/scripts/prod/sdtd-crashfi...

Email Notifications Once the site is installed, you can enable email notifications by enabling notifications under Configuration->General->Email Options and configure PHP to communicate to the mail server by following this article: Setup Server for Sending Email using sSMTP . If you want the applic...

Multiple Domains / Sites Let's say you want to have multiple sites (multiple databases) on the same web server and they all use different domain names in their URLs, but each domain points to the same IP address. Example: (use your site's actual values rather than these example values) admin.yourdo...