Hosting one's own awesome mod

Note

The page Server/Running provides extra information on server configuration.

For now, it's only some notes and improvements may come later.

Building the dpk (additions to how to build mod):

• with 7zip: cd mod-<name>_src.dpkdir; 7z -tzip -mx=9 a ../mod-<name>_<version>.dpk .
• can simply depends on Unvanquished, the mod's content will be applied on top of Unvanquished's data

To host a mod, one needs two types of software servers on the host machine:

• an HTTP server (https does NOT work)
• daemonded

Starting daemonded: ./daemonded -homepath server +exec server.cfg

Unvanquished provides it's own maprotation.cfg file internally, which is used by default by provided file (rotation1 { goto defaultRotation })

Things to change in config/server.cfg:

• sv_hostname "my awesome server": name displayed on server list
• g_motd "my awesome mod": what to display when people connect
• sv_allowdownload 1: must be 1, since people won't have your mod otherwise
• sv_dl_maxRate "1000": seems pretty useless, related to UDP download, slow as hell anyway
• sv_wwwBaseURL "example.com/unvanquished/pkg": where to find the files to download, do not put protocol
• sv_wwwDownload "1": enable HTTP download (otherwise only slow UDP download will work)
• sv_wwwFallbackURL "dl.unvanquished.net/pkg": where to find packages you don't provide, a rather good idea, don't you think?
• set fs_extrapaks mod-awesome: mods to load at startup, relative to pakpath (TODO: document), up to the first underscore (_), since text after is reserved to versioning and extension. Last version will (probably?) always be used.

Last but not least, place in example.com/unvanquished/pkg:

• the dpk files people will need
• a file named PAKSERVER containing the text ALLOW_UNRESTRICTED_DOWNLOAD, you can download a ready to use one there.