[cod] Alpha Linux
Luke Antins (Firestorm Games)
luke at firestorm-games.net
Sun Dec 26 18:18:57 EST 2004
Jay.
I think you misunderstood stood me... I don't have 20 users to a box... if only :¬)
I said there is a redirection system serving 20+ COD users.
http://www.firestorm-games.net/redirect
> am I doing this all wrong, because it works.
No, the setup you have will work fine.
> If I link mod to main, the download it to their main folder insteand of mod
> folder.
What I have is a per-user setup (as not every user has the same version of
the same files...)
redirection.com/<user>/<game>/<location>/<file>/
Lets assume there are 2 users setup on the redirection system.
coduser1
coduser2
they will setup there url paths to be this:
redirection.com/coduser1/cod
redirection.com/coduser2/cod
If they both use the map "custom_map.pk3" under the default COD it would
download it from:
redirection.com/coduser1/cod/main/custom_map.pk3
redirection.com/coduser2/cod/main/custom_map.pk3
If there using the mod "some_mod", it would download from:
redirection.com/coduser1/cod/some_mod/custom_map.pk3
redirection.com/coduser2/cod/some_mod/custom_map.pk3
However, that does not mean there is 4 copy's of the file "custom_map.pk3",
there is only 1!
for example it could be located on the system here:
/home/redirection/files/cod/custom_map.pk3
It is then symbolical linked from each directory.
Thats the basics of what I mean! The reality of it is a bit more
complicated however heh.
Because you have all the maps / mods in 1 location that ever user uses
you will get problems when there is files that have the same name!!
(ie a map with different versions but the same name, or 2 totally different
maps but they just happen to have the same name).
ie, if there is the file "map.pk3" and there is 5 other maps (different
maps) but all called the same name, you can only host 1 of them! As
everyone is using the same redirection directory.
Hope the above makes some sense.
Kind Regards
Luke Antins
--
[Firestorm Games]
http://www.firestorm-games.net/
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Jay Vasallo wrote:
> OK, I don't have 20 users to a box, so I am not too worried about the space
> each user consums for maps. Most clients favor around 20 maps or less. I was
> more worried about the file redirection.
> Take a look at this:
>
>
> I know I direct my clients to s file called http://site.com/downloads
>
> and inside http://mysite.com/downloads/uo
> http://mysite.com/downloads/main
> http://mysite.com/downloads/mod
>
>
> am I doing this all wrong, because it works.
>
> If I link mod to main, the download it to their main folder insteand of mod
> folder.
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