MTSM/README.md

MTSM - Minetest Server Manager

MTSM is a simple server manager with a tiny bash event manager. It requires no setup (except setting properties in the config.php script) and the start of MTSM's event manager. MTSM is released under the CC-BY-SA v3.0 unported.

MTSM was written by Chris Dorman, 2021 https://cddo.cc

Requirements

• PHP5+
• Minetest, Multicraft, Etc, installed and configured for your system.
• Super user privleges for the event manager unless executed as the web server user.

Setup

• Modify config.php to your needs
• Visit page to generate mtm_db for flat file user database
• Execute MTSM backend as SU: sudo ./start-mtsm start
• Copy a fresh minetest source tree (compiled with binaries) into servers/ in a .tgz archive (THIS MUST BE DONE FOR THE SCRIPT TO COPY AND START A FRESH VM)

minetest-current.tgz archive tree

• servers/minetest-current.tgz

  • bin/ ---->
    • minetestserver
  • games/ ...

  and so on!

multicraft.tgz tree

• servers/multicraft.tgz

  • bin/ ---->
    • multicraftserver
  • games/ ...

  and so on!

• These archives are uncompressed by the event manager when each user creates a server. This step is crucial for an operating MTSM installation.

Mods / Gamepacks

• Mods are sharable to all users, and should be copied to mods/ within the MTSM tree.
• Minetest games should be installed, as a directory, in games/ within the MTSM tree.

ChangeLog

2/01/2021 - v1.0

• Working PHP front end with user registeration and login
• Working bash back end for server management
• Allows each user to create 1 server, minetest-current or multicraft
• Allows user ability to start / stop server
• configure minetest.conf (to an extent)
• PHP email validation via filter_var
• Allows users the ability to enable mods, via mod menu.
• User viewable logfile, minetest.conf, and soon world.mt

Licensing

MTSM (C) Chris Dorman, 2021. MTSM is released under CC-BY-SA version 3.0 and is released as is.