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fugasjunior / arma-server-manager

A web administration tool for managing Arma 3, Arma Reforger and DayZ dedicated servers
GNU General Public License v3.0
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headless #81

Closed trollhus closed 10 months ago

trollhus commented 1 year ago

Hi, You have made it supereasy to create a server ! Thank you! :)

But as there is no builtin support for headless yet is it possible for me to run a manual ./armaserver_x64 -client within the container or is there a better way to do it?

fugasjunior commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the feedback!

As you say, until the support for HC is built into the app, you can manually run the client as you suggest.

An alternative approach which I personally use is to create a script that starts the headless client and set it up as an additional server. You can follow the steps to do so here: https://github.com/fugasjunior/arma-server-manager#additional-servers.

Sample script a3hc.sh:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/steam/armaservermanager/servers/ARMA3 && ./arma3server_x64 -client -connect=127.0.0.1:2302 -password=abcd -mod=@CBA_A3 -mod=@ace ...

You just need to make sure the script is accessible in the container. Let me know if you need any help setting this up.

trollhus commented 1 year ago

Thank you. That shell script works perfectly! :) Do you use screen or something if you want to use more than one HCs? Also if I wish to edit bandwith, min error etc, how should I do it? I can't find a file or where to designate my "network" file for startup parameters. Its not a big issue tho as I mostly play on my own or with a few friends :)

Again, I hope this get more popular because its extremely easy to setup. You should share it along the forums. Great work!

Thank you!

fugasjunior commented 1 year ago

Perfect, glad it's working! If you need to run multiple HCs, as you say, you can use either screen or tmux to do that. Alternatively if you decide to use the "additional servers" function, you can create two distinct additional servers which run the same script, so then you could run the HCs using the UI.

Regarding the network config, currently there's no way to do that using the UI. However according to the documentation, Arma 3 generates a default config Arma3.cfg in the user profile directory if none is specified. So you can attach to the container and find the file (find / -name Arma3.cfg) and try editting it manually. That's an oversight on my mind and I'll likely add the option to edit these settings soon.

fugasjunior commented 10 months ago

Support for launching headless clients through UI is now available in release v1.2.0.