OpenRA - Red Alert Classic dedicated server hosted on RaspberryPi 3b+.
To join the game use the OpenRA launcher and select The Chill Island server from the multiplayer menu.
./launch-dedicated.sh- used to start the server. Original script from OpenRA server../editmotd.sh- script used to update themotd.txtfile. this file must be eddited accordingly as per in-file instruction. More info on themotd.txtfile heredraw.txt- text file containg your message(can be ascii draw);motd.txt- themotd.txtfile generated which will be copied to the server location
Install pm2 to manage the server instance and store the output logs on the server. Using a cronjob on ./editmotd.sh will make a repeat task job to update the Message of the day motd.txt file with your own.
Use pm2 log rotation for better performance.
- RaspberyPi >= 3b+
- Nodejs/npm - Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. (this is not necessary but helful to run the server. also this is how it is deployed on the server.)
- PM2 - PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7
- OPENRA - opensource Red Alert engine
- Raspberypi >= 3b+
Follow the guide from OpenRA on how to setup or jioin the the Discord server. More information on their wiki here OpenRA.
Install missing dependencies if needed:
sudo apt-get install mono-runtime libmono2.0-cil libsdl2-2.0 \
libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil \
libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil \
libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libgl1-mesa-dri liblua5.1-0
After the game has been installed just run launch-dedicated.sh script. More details inside the script if you want to have it configured.
To lunch the server use pm2 such as:
pm2 start ./launch-dedicated.sh