dedicated-manager

The dedicated manager is a maniaplanet dedicated server web manager. This tools allows you to start, configure and manage easily your dedicated server.

Installation

• Download the archive here: https://github.com/maniaplanet/dedicated-manager/releases . It contains all you need to setup the dedicated manager
• Unzip it wherever you want on your server
• Connect to your server in command line
• Run $ php setup.php this script will helped you to configure the dedicated manager
• Create the alias manager on your web server. This alias must linked to the www folder in DedicatedManager
  • Create the following file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/manager.conf
  • Copy/paste the following apache configuration in this file:
  • for Apache 2.4

    Alias /manager /path/to/the/dedicated/manager
    <Directory /path/to/the/dedicated/manager>
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
    </Directory>

  • for Apache 2.2

    Alias /manager /path/to/the/dedicated/manager
    <Directory /path/to/the/dedicated/manager>
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </Directory>

  • Enable the alias configuration $ sudo a2ensite manager
  • Restart Apache $ sudo service apache2 restart
• Use $ chmod o+w www/media/images/thumbnails to grant write access to apache in the thumbnail folder
• The dedicated manager is now configured go to http://YourDomain/manager to access it

Developers

In order have a working version, you need to have Composer.

• Clone our repository: $ git clone git@github.com:maniaplanet/dedicated-manager.git
• Go in dedicated-manager directory: $ cd dedicated-manager
• Run composer to update the dependencies: $ composer install
• Use your SQL Manager (phpMyAdmin, HeidiSQL, etc.) to import Manager.sql, this will create the database and its tables
• Create a MySQL user and grant SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE to Manager database
• Create an Apache alias, or a symbolic link to www folder
• Give write access to thumbnails folder in www/media/images/thumbnails
• Create your app.ini file
• Edit the DedicatedManager's config file (DedicatedManager/config/app.ini) and give the correct values to the following parameters:

  application.URL
  database.user
  database.password
  DedicatedManager\Config.dedicatedPath
  DedicatedManager\Config.manialivePath

Secure access with OAuth2

If you want to secured access to your Dedicated Manager page, you can enable OAuth2 authentication. With this system only users with ManiaPlanet account allowed in your app.ini file.

• Create a web service account on your player page (https://player.maniaplanet.com/webservices/)
• Create an application linked to your web service account
• Edite your app.ini file and set the following values:

  
  DedicatedManager\Config.maniaConnect = On

webservices.username = 'Your API Username' webservices.password = 'Your API Password'

DedicatedManager\Config.admins[] = 'Admin1Login' DedicatedManager\Config.admins[] = 'Admin2Login' DedicatedManager\Config.admins[] = 'Admin3Login'