Trackmania Updates for ManiaControl, Release v0.220

[kremsy]

The previous days the ManiaControl-Team worked hard to improve the experience of ManiaControl in Trackmania.

Major Changes:

• Reworked Dedimania Plugin - the Plugin works now and has proper Connection to Dedimania Thanks a lot to Bueddl of "tmserver.org" for this!
• Local Records Plugin has a new designed Widget, showing your Record and places in front and behind you
• Local Records Plugin captures now Lap Records
• Trackmania Plugin for Rounds and Cup (commands for setting point distribution, endround and other stuff)
• Extremly performance improvements, Trackmania Servers with 200 Players can be handled fine with ManiaControl now
• MX List only show Maps of the Trackmania Environment where its played on
• Severall Bug fixes

Thanks a lot to everyone who worked hard on these updates, special Thanks to Jocy and Bueddl!

You can download it here:
https://github.com/ManiaControl/ManiaCo ... tag/v0.220

[chapelier]

hey,
Question surely posed full of times but I have not found the answer :
- Is it possible to setup ManiaControl to support multitple Dedicated servers on a single machine ?

[kremsy]

Yes it is, but it runs in separate instances using a shared database and a single server.xml config the following way:

Step 1) Create an own ManiaControl.sh for every server (named differently for example ManiaControl1.sh ManiaControl2.sh)

Step 2) Adjust the sh Files to (Example for ManiaControl1.sh)

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#!/bin/sh
php ManiaControl.php -id=server1 -sh=ManiaControl1.sh >ManiaControl.log 2>&1 &
echo $! > ManiaControl.pid

-id is a unique name for the servers and -sh the parameter for the ManiaControl file

Step 3) Add the servers to your servers.xml

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	<server id="server1">
		<!-- MC Dev Elite -->
		<host>ip1</host>
		<port>5001</port>
		<login>SuperAdmin</login>
		<pass>YOUR_PASS</pass>
	</server>
	
	<server id="server2">
		<host>ip2</host>
		<port>5001</port>
		<login>SuperAdmin</login>
		<pass>YOUR_PASS</pass>
	</server>

while the id corresponds to the id in the sh file.

[chapelier]

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	<server id="server1">
		<!-- MC Dev Elite -->
		<host>ip1</host>
		<port>5001</port>
		<login>SuperAdmin</login>
		<pass>YOUR_PASS</pass>
	</server>
	
	<server id="server2">
		<host>ip2</host>
		<port>5001</port>
		<login>SuperAdmin</login>
		<pass>YOUR_PASS</pass>
	</server>

while the id corresponds to the id in the sh file.

I feel confused, for me ip1 et ip2 are the sames and i have 2 differents ports like 5001 and 5002.
But anyway it doesnt worked... did i missed something ?

[kremsy]

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	<server id="server1">
		<!-- MC Dev Elite -->
		<host>ip1</host>
		<port>5001</port>
		<login>SuperAdmin</login>
		<pass>YOUR_PASS</pass>
	</server>
	
	<server id="server2">
		<host>ip2</host>
		<port>5001</port>
		<login>SuperAdmin</login>
		<pass>YOUR_PASS</pass>
	</server>

while the id corresponds to the id in the sh file.

I feel confused, for me ip1 et ip2 are the sames and i have 2 differents ports like 5001 and 5002.
But anyway it doesnt worked... did i missed something ?

For the Most cases the IPs are the same ofcourse, can you explain more detail what does not work exactly?

[chapelier]

The 2 maniaControl instances send their commands to the same server, the first in the server.xml file.
for instance, when i switch the servers in that file, then it is the first which works and the commands are send 2 times.

[kremsy]

The 2 maniaControl instances send their commands to the same server, the first in the server.xml file.
for instance, when i switch the servers in that file, then it is the first which works and the commands are send 2 times.

How does your start sh look like, you sure youve put the right -id argument behind?

[chapelier]

here it is :
ManiaControlLagoon.sh

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#!/bin/sh
php ManiaControl.php -id serverLagoon -sh ManiaControlLagoon.sh >ManiaControl.log 2>&1 &
echo $! > ManiaControl.pid

ManiaControlTrial.sh

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#!/bin/sh
php ManiaControl.php -id serverTrial -sh ManiaControlTrial.sh >ManiaControl.log 2>&1 &
echo $! > ManiaControl.pid

and the server.xml

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         <server id="serverLagoon">
		<host>127.0.0.1</host>
		<port>5002</port>
		<user>SuperAdmin</user>
		<pass>xxxx</pass>
	</server>
	
	<server id="serverTrial">
  	        <host>127.0.0.1</host>
		<port>5000</port>
		<user>SuperAdmin</user>
		<pass>xxxx</pass>
	</server>

[chapelier]

I think the problem is here :

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public static function getParameter($paramName) {
		$paramName = (string) $paramName;
		$params    = self::getAllParameters();
		foreach ($params as $param) {
			$parts = explode('=', $param, 2);

We need to use "=" for the parameters.

And we need to use "-config=server1.xml" in the command line.

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private function loadConfig() {
		$configId       = CommandLineHelper::getParameter('-config');
		$configFileName = ($configId ? $configId : 'server.xml');

so we need to have 2 xml files.

and now it works !

edit : and having 2 xml files, we can have 2 distinct databases for each server.

[kremsy]

I think the problem is here :

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public static function getParameter($paramName) {
		$paramName = (string) $paramName;
		$params    = self::getAllParameters();
		foreach ($params as $param) {
			$parts = explode('=', $param, 2);

We need to use "=" for the parameters.

And we need to use "-config=server1.xml" in the command line.

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private function loadConfig() {
		$configId       = CommandLineHelper::getParameter('-config');
		$configFileName = ($configId ? $configId : 'server.xml');

so we need to have 2 xml files.

and now it works !

edit : and having 2 xml files, we can have 2 distinct databases for each server.

You don't need necessaraly two xml files, sorry if I told something wrong, we are going to write a small doku about all commandline parameters soon.

This is a sample line how we use it:

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php ManiaControl.php -id=league13 -sh=ManiaControl13.sh >ManiaControl.log 2>&1 &

so with the -id you don't need -config and can use same config (but than you have the same database ofc).