Ark Dedicated server on Ubuntu 14.04

[ratbum]

Hi fellow Gamers!

I write this post after several hours of try and fail and after reading around 10 guides on how to setup Ark Dedicated Server... the installation runs as expected but when I try to connect to the server I just cannot ! I'm stuck and would like to have a bit of community magic ;-)

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I'm on a Kimsufi webserver with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04.
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I create my linux user add it to sudoers and make a home folder for that user (classic setup).

After that I install Steam and from steam console I install ARK as explained on several guides around. Then I create a .sh file to start the ARK server with a basic setup and make it executable.

After that I'm ready to start testing the server...

I launch the server_start.sh and I see the following messages:

4.5.1-0+UE4 7038 3077 402 5
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 346110

This seem to be the normal output when the ARK Server is launched on console.

On htop I see that ShooterGameServer is running and 4.8Gb of Memory and around 12% of CPU, which sounds also correct.

When I do a netstat -a after executing the server_start.sh I see the server is listening to ports 7777 and 27015, the following lines appear (but doesn't if the ARK server is not running) which seems good...

udp 0 0 *:27015 *:*
udp 0 0 *:27015 *:*

My first guess at this point is the firewall... so I've deleted all rules of iptables (ufw is disabled) and added the following unic INPUT rule:

ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere

That should allow connexions on all ports... isn't? Well I think it should :-)

After this I try to detect the server using Steam > View > Servers > Add new server
I've set the IP and 27015 port but it answer "Server is not responding"

I also tried with the Network Utility of mac, Port Scan and I've set the IP address and port 7777 to 7778 and 27015 to 27016 but it doesn't detec any open port.

Please could you help me ?

[BladesMan]

try IP:7778

[ratbum]

Same result on Steam > View > Servers and on OSX Network Utility... "Server doesn't respond" and no open port found.

[BladesMan]

whats your sserver start command ?

[ratbum]

This is what I use to launch the server:

#! /bin/bash
ulimit -n 1000000
ARK/ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux/ShooterGameServer TheIsland?QueryPort=27015?listen?SessionName=HispaZone?ServerPassword=abcd1234?ServerAdminPassword=MySuperSecretPassword -server -log

[BladesMan]

Try this and try to connect with port 7778
#! /bin/bash
./ShooterGameServer TheIsland?listen?SessionName=<server_name>?Port=7777?QueryPort=7778?ServerPassword=<join_password>?ServerAdminPassword=<admin_password> -server -log
If not working propably sometingh wrong with OS
On Debian 7 i dint have any problems

[ratbum]

Hi BladesMan !

I have the same output:

4.5.1-0+UE4 7038 3077 402 5
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 346110

But now netstat is showing different ports:

udp 0 0 *:7778 *:*
udp 0 0 *:7779 *:*

Same result on Steam > View > Servers and on Network Utility... no response and no open port :(

I doubt it could be a bad OS installation, I've just made a standard install from Kimsufi and didn't touch anything except for installing steam and ARK... I also had the exact same issue on another Ubuntu machine where I first tried. All runs fine but is not possible to connect to the server.

Someone has some clue of what I should do? Maybe another distro? Maybe I could use a Minecraft preset from Kimsufi and install ARK beside hoping it's preconfigured for online gaming?
Is there some log file from ARK so I can see the error and correct it without installing again the full OS?

[BladesMan]

Sorry bro,if you can install Debian I recommend you.

[ratbum]

I'm installing Debian 8 as it's the last stable release. I will try my luck with that OS :-)
Than's for your answers BladesMan !!

[BladesMan]

No problem bro tell me results :-)

[ratbum]

Debian 8 installed :p I really prefare the Ubuntu flavour (and the fact it comes with sudo by default) but whatever :p

Now downloading ARK server from steam... 8% zZzzZZzzZZzzz