[messages] [General Discussion] setup own server

[Joel Uckelman]

Thus spake Filip:
> Ok, I've been experimenting today.
> 
> Am I right that classes in VASSAL.chat.peer2peer are only for direct
> peer to peer games and have nothing to do with main server games? It
> appears to me that the only purpose of
> http://www.vassalengine.org/util/getMyAddress[1] in
> VASSAL.chat.peer2peer.DirectPeerPool.java is reading player's IP for
> such games. Is that how it knows what to display in the p2p connection
> window? Is there more to it?

I can't say. I've never looked at that code before.
 
> Instances of vassalengine.org in other VASSAL.chat.peer2peer classes are
> in inactive parts of the code. My current guess is that leaving
> http://www.vassalengine.org/util/getMyAddress[2] alone should be safe.
> 
> My actual suspects are:
> 
> src/VASSAL/chat/HttpMessageServer.java:     
> "http://www.vassalengine.org/util/getMessages", //$NON-NLS-1$
> src/VASSAL/chat/HttpMessageServer.java:     
> "http://www.vassalengine.org/util/postMessage", //$NON-NLS-1$
> src/VASSAL/chat/HttpMessageServer.java:     
> "http://www.vassalengine.org/util/motd",        //$NON-NLS-1$
> 
> src/VASSAL/chat/CgiServerStatus.java:    request = new
> HttpRequestWrapper("http://www.vassalengine.org/util/"); //$NON-NLS-1$
> 
> I tried creating empty files with those names to the server config
> folder, and changed all URLs as appropriate. This build shows no games
> in server stats. I'm not sure if that fixed the problem, but at least it
> didn't break anything - I'm still able to connect to my server. I need
> to test it with other players, but I guess we'll just have to wait for
> the next main server failure to know for sure. Unless you can point out
> something that I ignored.

It's likely these that are the problem. I'm glad you got it to work.
 
-- 
J.