PT Server at Linux

This is beta of PT Server working under Linux. Clans are not added yet so don't tell me that they are not working.
I hope you guys can find some bugs, so far I was not able to find any that are Linux specific.


What do you need:

VirtualBox VM:

https://rapidshare.com/files/3883794...p_9.20_.7z.001
https://rapidshare.com/files/6802856...p_9.20_.7z.002
https://rapidshare.com/files/4109414...p_9.20_.7z.003
https://rapidshare.com/files/3423557...p_9.20_.7z.004
https://rapidshare.com/files/1166672...p_9.20_.7z.005
https://rapidshare.com/files/9188468...p_9.20_.7z.006
https://rapidshare.com/files/1165814...p_9.20_.7z.007
https://rapidshare.com/files/1873908...p_9.20_.7z.008
https://rapidshare.com/files/7452915...p_9.20_.7z.009
https://rapidshare.com/files/2422593...p_9.20_.7z.010
https://rapidshare.com/files/2777979...p_9.20_.7z.011
https://rapidshare.com/files/5671809...p_9.20_.7z.012
https://rapidshare.com/files/2546346...p_9.20_.7z.013
https://rapidshare.com/files/1601317...p_9.20_.7z.014
https://rapidshare.com/files/2469063...p_9.20_.7z.015
https://rapidshare.com/files/4156878...p_9.20_.7z.016
https://rapidshare.com/files/1507750...p_9.20_.7z.017
https://rapidshare.com/files/4130155...p_9.20_.7z.018
https://rapidshare.com/files/7249104...p_9.20_.7z.019
https://rapidshare.com/files/1829801...p_9.20_.7z.020


MD5 : b3961a94fcc5de277f836b8c30f4f5af
SHA1 : 08c49bdcab515ea01b2e9f709b1a7f686eae31f8
CRC32 : 44c8fcd8
File Size : 4,094,791,400

VirtualBox:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

How to setup connection?

On VirtualBox:

http://forum.ragezone.com/attachment...1&d=1334308093

On Windows:

You need to add loopback adapter and configure it (see picture below)

http://forum.ragezone.com/attachment...1&d=1334308093

Recommended client:

test kPT 1.98.9 (server is using "char" and "Field" folders from that version).
Look for PristonTale(test)_Setup(1989).exe on google if you don't have this client yet.

You will need those lines in ptReg.rgx

Code:

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"Server1" "192.168.56.102"
"Server2" "192.168.56.102"
"Server3" "192.168.56.102"

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But you can use yours as long as you remember to replace "char" and "Field" folders.

You should be able to ping your server now (ping -t 192.168.56.102).

You are free to change IP, server or client as long as you know what you are doing.
SQL.dll, Clan.dll and libmySQL.dll in server folder are essential.
If you are planing to replace this server with yours than you have to copy them.

Passwords for user account, root account, MySQL and so on...

ALL passwords are set to 123456

Spoiler:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - YouTube

I added 6 for confusion ;)

Where is the server?

/home/pristontale/.wine/drive_c/PristonTale/GameServer/

server4096K.exe (kPT Protocols, Port 10009)

Are those server files good?

This is mix of Operz jPT and bobsobol PPT + some tools.

What's not working?

- .net 1.1 tools are broken (only on Debian Sid, but this will be fixed)
- no clans (clan system is not added yet)

No more bugs so far...

Is it faster?

On small scale, I don't see difference.
On big scale, someone with 100+/200+ players server need to tell me.
I'm very interested in "data". If anyone willing to test Linux server I would appreciate it.

Any tutorial how to make it from scratch?

Not yet.

duude I read "Priston Tale pServer F.A.Q." and its clear about PT on Linux, its not working

Must be outdated :)

What's the best way to start server?

From terminal:
wine server4096K.exe

Account and password to login?

Acc: a
Pass: a

Acc: b
Pass: b

Acc: c
Pass: c

Acc: d
Pass: d

Why Linux?

BECAUSE

( •_•)

LINUX

( •_•)>⌐■-■

IS COOL

(⌐■_■)





PS. Anyone remember on what PHP version clan files "supposed" to work according to Gregoo?

Everyone break out your Unix Manuals. ^_^

Spoiler:

That's a Unix book.

BTW... Strictly speaking, it's still not running on Linux, but thanks to Wine, it is running without Windows.

It's kinda like Java doesn't actually run on Windows, Mac or Linux... yet all three, and many other systems can run Java applications via a JVM. Same thing. :D:

Split into multiple files and uploaded.

That reminds me about some Java project which will let me use .ASP files on linux.
Don't know why but PHP is "transparent" for PT :/
Gregoo was talking about PHP version that might work with PT but can't find this post. Maybe it was deleted when he rage quit.

I can start thinking about PT Server without GUI.

I believe that was the premiss of his "IIS, Yes Sir!" guide. PHP works fine for all PT functions in IIS, but neither it nor many other SSS work well if you use Apache.

Is there a problem with Apache::ASP? Mono provides excellent ASP.net operation, I believe.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by bobsobol

Is there a problem with Apache::ASP? Mono provides excellent ASP.net operation, I believe.

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Quote:

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VBScript or JScript supported?
Only Perl scripting is supported with this module.

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I'm testing ArrowHead but so fart there is error:

Code:

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File /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/ServerMain/sod2info.asp line 16: Cast Exception: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "&H0D"
        at com.tripi.asp.Types.coerceToInteger(Types.java:94)
        at com.tripi.asp.VBScriptGlobals$ChrFunction.execute(VBScriptGlobals.java:632)
        at com.tripi.asp.AbstractFunctionNode.execute(AbstractFunctionNode.java:62)
        at com.tripi.asp.GetIndexNode.execute(GetIndexNode.java:178)
        at com.tripi.asp.SetValueNode.execute(SetValueNode.java:124)
        at com.tripi.asp.BlockNode.execute(BlockNode.java:155)
        at com.tripi.asp.AspThread.run(AspThread.java:79)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
File /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/ServerMain/sod2info.asp line 16: File unknown line unknown: Cast Exception: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "&H0D"

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I think I will try different version of Java.

Bob you are good at VB, can I rewrite this:

Dim strSplit, strSplit2
strSplit = Chr("&H" & "0D")
strSplit2 = Chr("&H" & "7C")

to something that will work?
Those lines giving me error in every file.

__EDIT__

Mono will run .ASPX files but not .ASP, I don't wan't to use my all .ASPX version because there was a bug showing incorrect clan :/

You mean

Code:

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Dim strSplit, strSplit2
strSplit = Chr(13)
strSplit2 = Chr(124)

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I think it's become a mess while trying to escape the ampersands in the hex constants. As pure vb6, not ASP vb code it should be:-

Code:

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Dim strSplit, strSplit2
strSplit = Chr(&h0D)
strSplit2 = Chr(&h7C)

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To my eye, there are extra quotation marks in there that would break out to:-

Code:

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Dim strSplit, strSplit2
strSplit = Chr("&h0D")
strSplit2 = Chr("&h7C")

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Which is invalid, because the Chr() function is something like:-

Code:

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Byte Chr(ByRef val As Byte)

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While vb should automatically typecast val as Byte on passing to the function, based upon the prototype, it can't cast Type String to Type Byte without using the Chr() function... Which is what it's trying to pass it to... so it's never going to work. (edit: I guess it could, but that would produce both variables being equal to 38, or &h26... the ASCII value of the character "&" :(:)

My guess, if it works on ASP in IIS is that it's either taking advantage of, or working around a bug in ASP / IIS.

Regardless, if you are happy to represent the character as decimal, rather than hex in your source, you don't need to break out the hex constant identifier "&h".

See how that works out. (1st code snippet)

--- EDIT ---
TBH, I'd be happier with 100% ASP or 100% php. I can't read ASP.net and can't think of a good reason to use 2 server side scripting language modules in any server.

P.S. Am I right in thinking the only problem with Perl is that it's engine tends to be slow under heavy load? (Perl scripts rock in shell scripting)

Ok, this works:

strSplit = Chr(&h0D)
strSplit2 = Chr(&h7C)

but also this works (no case sensitive?):
strSplit = Chr(&H0D)
strSplit2 = Chr(&H7C)

and this:
strSplit = Chr(&H&0D)
strSplit2 = Chr(&H&7C)


I assume that 1st one will give me same results as on IIS?

__edited 1st one

No... the "&h" is not case sensitive, and neither is the hex number. "&h0D" or "&H0d" is normal. Most people like to use case to distinguish the &h identifier from the hex digits that follow.

As for IIS, I'm surprised that your original worked. But am aware that the IIS pre-parseing to separate raw HTML from Server Side Scripting can have strange effects on the script code.

My clan system does not work at all :/
Good thing about this is that php still could work.

I did not run clan system for ages.
Just to clarify, all I need to run is:

*CLAN_SERVER 192.168.56.102 80
and .asp pages?

Do you have some packet dumps from character login without clan? I would like to see how check "is in clan" look like.

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OK I think I see where problem is. %s in client is not replaced by IP.
IPs are taken from registry?

They are taken from client hotuk.ini, which I believe the registry code would normally replace. But since I reverse the priority and store no client config in the registry, I couldn't say for sure.

Code:

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*ODBC_TABLE_PLAY
*ODBC_TABLE_PASSWORD
*ODBC_TABLE_IDNAME
*ODBC_TABLE
*ODBC_PASSWORD
*ODBC_ACCOUNT
*ODBC_NAME
*CLAN_SERVER
*GAME_SERVER

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All (potentially) part of the client hotuk.ini. :blink:

Can't remember what I did, but I did get the client picking up manually entered Clan data from a different PC to the game server using something like these. I thought there was a DATASERVER_IP and DATASERVER_PORT command but I don't see it in the clients now... so I guess I'm miss-remembering. (mistaken memory)

Don't work on my client and I can't figure out from where it should take parameters. Other info like account id or server name are correct.

Can you check:

Code:

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lea    eax, [esp+1Ch+szUrl] ; Load Effective Address
push    offset HttpSServerm_14 ; "http://%s/servermain/sod2info.asp?userid=%s&chname=%s&gserver=%s&index=%d"

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your result?

%s <- should be IP here...

You need to set BP there and click on lady SOD manager. (it might make url string 2nd time you click)

It look like ArrowHead is giving error in packet but I would like to fix this missing IP problem before I go back to PHP.

I can't. Secretary Karina has never said anything to me on any of my servers... she doesn't work. Since I've never needed to use her (I don't really know what she is supposed to do) I never tried to fix.

Give SoD score =P
But url string should be formed anyway.

O well, I guess I will force IPs on client later.

As to the packet "corruption" I believe that is what Gregoo has told us many times. Apache breaks packets down at different points, and because the PT client doesn't use Windows HTTP GET APIs but WinSock TCP/IP Client ones, it doesn't read a page, but a packet. IIS issues one packet for the page, but Apache issues the prologue in one packet and the page content in another... or, something similar. (he has explained the technical details better elsewhere on more than one... probably more than 2 occasions)

I think there are other servers which format packets similar to IIS, and I'm fairly certain that if you used MS Proxy server, between Apache and PT Client, it may well reformat the responses.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Vormav

Don't work on my client and I can't figure out from where it should take parameters. Other info like account id or server name are correct.

Can you check:

Code:

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lea    eax, [esp+1Ch+szUrl] ; Load Effective Address
push    offset HttpSServerm_14 ; "http://%s/servermain/sod2info.asp?userid=%s&chname=%s&gserver=%s&index=%d"

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your result?

%s <- should be IP here...

You need to set BP there and click on lady SOD manager. (it might make url string 2nd time you click)

It look like ArrowHead is giving error in packet but I would like to fix this missing IP problem before I go back to PHP.

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I'd leave this question open for someone else to answer.

I'm looking for Sun Active Server Pages 4.0.3 (linux version) this is discontinued but it look like it disappeared from the internet >___>
This cross-platform solution could fix clans on linux.