Creeping's private server help thread.

[Creeping]

Okay so I made this thread in hopes of getting community support.

Okay working with comet source 5017

I have dB up. I have edited all configuration files in src/client

Can't get client to connect. Says server maintenance. So I checked game ports with port checker. There forwarded threw router. But still showing closed. Seems spectrums router isn't opening ports as specified in forwarding. Not sure why.

Okay so chime in developers. Why would port still show closed?

[Spirited]

Okay so I made this thread in hopes of getting community support.

Okay working with comet source 5017

I have dB up. I have edited all configuration files in src/client

Can't get client to connect. Says server maintenance. So I checked game ports with port checker. There forwarded threw router. But still showing closed. Seems spectrums router isn't opening ports as specified in forwarding. Not sure why.

Okay so chime in developers. Why would port still show closed?

Well, an ISP can block ports from being exposed on the naked internet from residential addresses. They usually only block high traffic ports like 80, though. More likely is that you have a firewall rule preventing you from exposing the port. You might need to add an exclusion rule to allow the port through the firewall.

[Creeping]

Okay will check when I get home.Thank you. @work building boats.

[Creeping]

Okay redid router forwarding. Checked win 10s firewall rules.

It had name of the 2 dbs in it already. So I assume it auto added what it needed. Checked both configuration files in sec bin folders. What's rpc server ip suppose to be? I googled says it's for basically running software on other machine on same lan? It's currently set to my machine ip on network. Also I start servers by running .exes in each folder? Example Comet.game.exe ?

So many questions. My head is just loaded with them. Gonna run test run now. Wish me luck. Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge.

Update. Ran it with dotnet run same

Results. Client still says s.m. not sure why I can't connect. Both servers load with no errors. Says there listening. Shrug. I can only assume something is still blocking ports. Going to double check configuration files. Running out of things to check.

[Spirited]

Okay redid router forwarding. Checked win 10s firewall rules.

It had name of the 2 dbs in it already. So I assume it auto added what it needed. Checked both configuration files in sec bin folders. What's rpc server ip suppose to be? I googled says it's for basically running software on other machine on same lan? It's currently set to my machine ip on network. Also I start servers by running .exes in each folder? Example Comet.game.exe ?

So many questions. My head is just loaded with them. Gonna run test run now. Wish me luck. Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge.

Update. Ran it with dotnet run same

Results. Client still says s.m. not sure why I can't connect. Both servers load with no errors. Says there listening. Shrug. I can only assume something is still blocking ports. Going to double check configuration files. Running out of things to check.

Right. That RPC is between the Account server and Game server. They could, theoretically, be on separate machines if you choose to do so. If you're running both servers on one machine, then you can keep the default value of 127.0.0.1. It still sounds like your firewall rules could be preventing you from connecting using an outside connection. If you also can't connect using an internal IP address (192.168.x.x), then you'll know it's a firewall rule problem. You can then try disabling your firewall and see if it works.

[Creeping]

Grrrr. Okay dropped win10 firewall. Started servers and did a port check on game related ports. Still showing closed. It's like win 10 blocking somehow. I don't know running out ideas. Gonna try and open utorrent and see if port opens .

[WHITELIONX]

Good old Windows 10, it doesn't open ports properly.

[Spirited]

Good old Windows 10, it doesn't open ports properly.

Really? I haven't had any problems with opening ports on Windows 10.

Are you sure you're opening the ports properly with your firewall and router?

[Creeping]

Router yes. Firewall I turned off completely. If I was home would screenshot router forwarding.

[Spirited]

Router yes. Firewall I turned off completely. If I was home would screenshot router forwarding.

Hmm... Did you try using your internal IP address rather than your public one? Aka. the 192.168.x.x address? Because if that works, then it's not a firewall issue. If it doesn't work even then though, then you'll know it's something on your system that's blocking it. Good luck, and let me know how it goes.

[Santa]

I'm a little lost. What is it that you are trying to do exactly? Sounds like you are setting up the server on your home network and then trying to access it from outside of your network?

Have you tried connecting to the server from a client on the local network?

[WHITELIONX]

Good old Windows 10, it doesn't open ports properly.

Really? I haven't had any problems with opening ports on Windows 10.

Are you sure you're opening the ports properly with your firewall and router?

I am good lol, I found that after opening ports or what I thought was open I had to go through control panel/windows defender firewall/advanced settings and double check the inbound rules

[Spirited]

Good old Windows 10, it doesn't open ports properly.

Really? I haven't had any problems with opening ports on Windows 10.

Are you sure you're opening the ports properly with your firewall and router?

I am good lol, I found that after opening ports or what I thought was open I had to go through control panel/windows defender firewall/advanced settings and double check the inbound rules

Yep, that's how I do it as well.

[Creeping]

Okay. Update.

So I edited configuration for server and client. Put machine ip in them all. Started both servers. New error on client connect. Now u hit login and immediately it says server down.

Soooooo

With servers up opened a command prompt . Did Netstat command. Seem both servers in list but one was on 5817 other on 2029 or something.

So it seems server is bypassing config file and choosing what port it wants to open. Shrug.

Maybe someone might have some spare time this weekend? Maybe tv with me and see if they can help me get things up and connected? If your such person drop me a dm so we can coordinate please.

[Spirited]

Nice! If it says the server's down, then you need to make sure the name of the server you're connecting to (ex. Meteor, Dark, etc.) is the same as the configured name in the database. Follow the readme on GitLab and it should instruct you on how to do that. You're really really close now! Keep it up!