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While I appreciate that you took all the time to write this up, I think converting the Joomla-based installation, the forum and JDownloads to JSON data is a total overkill for the community of an old game with not that many active users.
The whole website including databases is mirrored every day on a special backup machine. It has saved my ass countless times. In case of failure, I also store weekly backups on another drive. Your examples all looked like no backups had been made beforehand, so a data loss was fatal in the end.
A GIT-based website is fine on projects like this, but I hesitate against implementing this here.
BTW, the sources and prerequisites for running the gameservers with wine are documented in these places:
http://www.ldso.net/tronforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1242
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7386
Space. The final frontier.
An overkill indeed. I wanted to share a vision of a final ideal setup, while I perfectly realize that it may not be feasible here.
I agree about backups. Maybe sites in my examples were just unlucky to have no backups. Intuitively I knew you do backups from reading the very first announcement 😉
And thanks for the links.
Somehow this site, and no other triggered this writeup. Maybe I-War is too special for me. Turned out quite big, so thanks for taking time to read!
Anyway, I wget-ed this site just in case. Mostly went well, with two minor issues. One was that files in “Downloads” were not saved with correct paths because of redirects from “/downloads/send/…” to real location. But I figured with –trust-server-names wget uses the path after redirects. Another is that “Documents” have always changing Last-Modified so updating them is not as nice as “Downloads” (which work fine).
I remember when I opened I-war2.com two years ago, and got a 404 not found error. 🙁 I had considered backing up the site in the past, and was disappointed that I had not. Thankfully, the website was only down because Schmatzler was re-modeling it. :cheer:
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
Storm Petrel
Did I seriously not check the forums for five days? :blink: I don’t normally miss stuff… then again, this week has been overwhelmingly busy.
Skimmed yer wall o’ text, and that plan sounds solid, I guess… I’m a gameplay coder, not a website coder. 😛 But what glimmers I do understand sound smart, so they must be good.
Welcome to the forums! B)
–IronDuke
I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂
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