Configuring and running Ryzom Core server on GNU/Linux

Preparing Packages

For Debian/Ubuntu users you will need to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-gd rrdtool

Making changes in services config files

Change FSListenHost in code/ryzom/server/frontend_service.cfg to your address (e.g. 192.168.0.1). If you set up server on different machine, remember it has to be address that's reachable on client host.

If your frontend service is available through a firewall using NAT and a mapped IP address this is how you can advertise that external IP address. For example if your FS is on 192.168.1.100 internally but your firewall maps 74.125.225.210 through to your FS you would want to configure FSListenHost to be the address the clients connect to: 74.125.225.210.

Configuring Apache and web tools

Ubuntu user: Don't forget to install php5-mysql synaptic packet and to uncomment "extension=mysql.so" into "php.ini" file to allow mysql connection from php code.

Configure Apache with PHP. Make a VirtualHost (usually in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf) for the login scripts and admin app (replace DocumentRoot with your own path).

For current Ubuntu versions you can just edit the file default in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ - substituting what is listed below for what is already there. It may be helpful to break this into multiple site configuration files but isn't necesasry.

Don't forget to change the paths used below to match where your source is checked out!

Main Login Site

Listen 40916
<VirtualHost *:40916>
  <Directory "/home/username/ryzom/code/ryzom/tools/server/">
     Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst NameWidth=*
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
  </Directory> 
  ServerAdmin admin@localhost
  DocumentRoot /home/username/ryzom/code/ryzom/tools/server/www
  ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

Main Web Site

<VirtualHost *:80>
  <Directory "/home/username/ryzom/code/ryzom/tools/server/">
     Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
     IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst NameWidth=*
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
  </Directory> 
  ServerAdmin admin@localhost

  # You can change this if you want.

  DocumentRoot /home/username/ryzom/code/ryzom/tools/server/admin

  # Admin Tool

  Alias /admin/ /home/username/ryzom/code/ryzom/tools/server/admin

  ServerName localhost

</VirtualHost>

You can place these into the same configuration file or separately, it's up to you. If you want to serve up some unique content, a signup page or something along those lines you can change the main website's DocumentRoot so long as the admin tool alias is still there.

Advanced Configuration Topics

See Configuring WebTT for configuration details regarding the Web Translation Tool.
See Configuring Ryzom API for configuration details regarding configuring the Ryzom API and WebIG applications.
See Configuring Ryzom Ring Server for configuration details regarding the configuration of a Ryzom Ring shard.
See Configuring Patching Services for configuration details regardin the patch site and tools.

In order to execute system commands like restarting services you will need to be able to log in as root or execute the command using sudo, e.g.:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Restart Apache by typing the following.

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Set NELTOOL_SITEBASE to your server address and NELTOOL_SYSTEMBASE to your path in code/ryzom/tools/server/admin/config.php.

Create code/ryzom/server/save_shard/rrd_graphs/ directory.

mkdir -p code/ryzom/server/save_shard/rrd_graphs/

Make sure the code/ryzom/tools/server/admin/graphs_output directory is writeable by all.

chmod a+w code/ryzom/tools/server/admin/graphs_output

Change $LogRelativePath to 'logs/' in code/ryzom/tools/server/www/login/config.php (NOTE: log directory has to be writeable by webserver and it's not wise to give it write access to the directory where script is.)

$LogRelativePath = 'logs/';

Make code/ryzom/tools/server/www/login/logs/ directory and make it writeable by all for login script logs.

mkdir -p code/ryzom/tools/server/www/login/logs/
chmod a+w code/ryzom/tools/server/www/login/logs/

cd code/ryzom/tools/server/admin/templates/
cp -r default default_c
chmod a+w default_c

Setting up MySQL

The configuration files in code/ryzom/server expect your user to be named 'shard' with NO PASSWORD. If you decide to use a different name for your MySQL user, or assign it a password, you will need to go through the .cfg files and change these values from 'shard' and "" wherever they appear. (they appear in several of the .cfg files)

Since this (and a password) can lead to unexpected errors (eg. error '4000') it is best to make sure everything works correctly with the defaults first.

Parse Error

If you are getting strange errors some config files may have Windows editor "control-M" endline characters, which appears as a blue ^M in vim. You can remove it with this vi command, noting that ^M is typed by pressing Ctrl+V followed by Ctrl+M:

find /home/username/ryzom/code -name "*.cfg" -name "*.php" | xargs grep -l '^M'
 
# if there are none, Vim will gladly eat your shell if you xargs it
vi <listed filename> 
 
# Next issue this command to vi :%s/^M//g

You may also skip this section and use the next section entitled "Setting up MySQL (Alternative)". It condenses all the steps listed below into a pre-generated MySQL file that you import.

Remove STRICT_TRANS_TABLES from sql_mode in your MySQL configuration. You can check if you have it by doing

SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name='sql_mode';

Or can run an SQL query within your database management tool, such as phpMyAdmin:

SET @@global.sql_mode= '';

Prepare MySQL databases

* Login to the MySQL database server using the command line:

mysql -uroot -p

Create Database and Grant Privileges

CREATE DATABASE nel;
CREATE DATABASE nel_tool;
CREATE DATABASE ring_open;

GRANT ALL ON nel.* TO shard@localhost;
GRANT ALL ON nel_tool.* TO shard@localhost;
GRANT ALL ON ring_open.* TO shard@localhost;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

If you use different usernames and password for database, you need to change the following files:

code/ryzom/server/sql.cfg
code/ryzom/tools/server/www/login/config.php
code/ryzom/tools/server/admin/config.php

Change all occurrences of open.ryzom.com in code/ryzom/tools/server/sql/ryzom_default_data.sql to your address (e.g. 192.168.0.1), but remember to keep ports (:4999 etc) as is.

Change code/ryzom/tools/server/sql/ryzom_admin_default_data.sql replacing /home/nevrax/code/ryzom/server/save_shard/rrd_graphs by your directory.

Popoulate databases with default data

cat code/ryzom/tools/server/sql/ryzom_tables.sql | mysql -ushard
cat code/ryzom/tools/server/sql/ryzom_default_data.sql | mysql -ushard
cat code/ryzom/tools/server/sql/ryzom_admin_default_data.sql | mysql -ushard nel_tool

In MySQL update host for admin app. Change YOUR_ADDRESS to your address (e.g. 192.168.0.1).

USE nel_tool;
UPDATE neltool_domains SET domain_as_host='YOUR_ADDRESS' where domain_id=12;

If you plan to make your shard public, consider this:

< Kaetemi> and only the SU, FS and web services should have a public ip, the other should be behind private for security reasons :)

Setting up MySQL (Alternative)

Use the Quick Start SQL Setup Script

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3LX3q7MsUEGNjdkMTJlZDItMzZlNy00Y2M0LTg0ODctMGI5MTExNjEzNTlk

Edit the file and replace the following path with your own:

/home/ryzom/code/ryzom/server/save_shard/rrd_graphs

Import in phpMyAdmin.

Running the shard

Make sure $RYZOM_PATH is set correctly: export RYZOM_PATH="/home/user/ryzom/code/ryzom"

If you did a CMake build you will need to copy the compiled binaries to their proper locations before running shard start:

From location: /home/user/ryzom/code run:

Copy Binaries To Run Location

cp ./build/bin/ryzom_admin_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/ryzom_admin_service/ryzom_admin_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_ai_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/ai_service/ai_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_backup_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/backup_service/backup_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_dynamic_scenario_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/dynamic_scenario_service/dynamic_scenario_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_entities_game_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/entities_game_service/entities_game_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_frontend_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/frontend_service/frontend_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_gpm_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/gpm_service/gpm_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_ios_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/input_output_service/input_output_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_log_analyser_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/log_analyser_service/log_analyser_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_logger_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/logger_service/logger_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_mail_forum_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/mail_forum_service/mail_forum_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_mirror_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/mirror_service/mirror_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_naming_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/ryzom_naming_service/ryzom_naming_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_pd_support_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/pd_support_service/pd_support_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_persistant_data_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/persistant_data_service/persistant_data_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_reference_builder_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/pd_reference_builder/pd_reference_builder
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_session_browser_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/session_browser_server/session_browser_server
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_shard_unifier_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/shard_unifier_service/shard_unifier_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_tick_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/tick_service/tick_service
cp ./build/bin/ryzom_welcome_service $RYZOM_PATH/server/src/ryzom_welcome_service/ryzom_welcome_service

Remember to have path to the scripts in your PATH. You'll need screen app for this script.
(Great screen how-to at: http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/ )

Ubuntu users, the 'shard/screen' scripts included will not work properly with the default 'dash' shell included in order to fix this run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash" and select "no". Alternatively you could modify both code/ryzom/tools/scripts/linux/shard andcode/ryzom/server/shard.screen.rc and find/replace any /bin/sh to /bin/bash.

Run commands:

export PATH=$PATH:$RYZOM_PATH/tools/scripts/linux
shard start

and of course to stop services:

shard stop

You should now have 20 Ryzom Core services running. You can monitor each running service using screen by:

momentarily pressing "ctrl" and "a" together and then press "n" to cycle through.

Client login errors

If your client gives you error messages on connect, check Client Connect Errors.

Notes

If you want to use your shard with the core client, you will have to copy the following file into code/ryzom/common/data_common:

http://ks35074.kimsufi.com:8080/visual_slot.tab

Configure Linux Server