Server install

[Kuonji]

Hi - I'd like to install my own Altitude server. There's a github/docker project here: https://github.com/ich777/docker-altitude

However, this isn't working because the URL it's trying to use is invalid. It's trying to download using a script found here: http://installer.altitudegame.com/0.0.1/altitude.sh

But the link doesn't work anymore. Can someone share the updated version of this link? Thank you.

[Karlito Brigante]

For Linux, it's a tar.bz2 file now https://nimblygames-installers.s3.amazonaws.com/altitude.tar.bz2.

Other files have moved around in the installer too, so that start script won't work either.

I don't have any Docker examples because the server self updates, which wouldn't work in a container. If you want here's my systemd stuff for Ubuntu:

1. Create a non admin no login user

   sudo adduser --system --shell /usr/sbin/nologin --group alt-server

2. Extract the tar.bz2 somewhere (/home/alt-server/altitude).
   
3. Change permissions

   sudo chown alt-server:alt-server /home/alt-server/altitude

4. Create a systemd file in

   /etc/systemd/system/alt-server.service

                [Unit]
                Description=Altitude servers 01
                After=network.target
         
                [Service]
                User=alt-server
                Group=alt-server
                EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
                Type=simple
                ExecStart=/home/alt-server/altitude/bin/server_launcher -config $serverConfigurationFilePath
                ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill $MAINPID
                PIDFile=/home/alt-server/.local/NimblyGames/Altitude-Server-50000/server_launcher.pid
                Restart=always
         
                [Install]
                WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

5. sudo systemctl daemon-reload

6. sudo systemctl enable alt-server.service

7. sudo systemctl start alt-server.service

8. Expose the ports you configured

   sudo ufw allow proto udp to any port 50000:50005

[Kuonji]

Thank you - I got it up and running on my LAN and my ports are forwarded (I forward lots of other ports so I'm familiar with it) - but how can I validate that my server is showing up on the global list? When I try to connect, my server is showing up under 'LAN' and I'm assuming it's also publicly accessible but I have no idea how to verify that..

Edit: nevermind - syslog has showed me some folks connecting. Thanks again

[Karlito Brigante]

No problem, glad you got it working!

[Kieltux]

Thank you, Karlito Brigante. With your instructions I successfully updated my Linux server without any problem.

[PANIC the pig]

Originally posted by Karlito Brigante:

For Linux, it's a tar.bz2 file now https://nimblygames-installers.s3.amazonaws.com/altitude.tar.bz2.

Other files have moved around in the installer too, so that start script won't work either.

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Thanks a lot Karl!

Is it possible to run an Altitude server on a Raspi e.g. on Raspberry pi OS?

[Karlito Brigante]

I don't think it's possible to get Altitude server running on an Arm processor (which is what a Raspberry Pi uses).

[Kevin]

Originally posted by Karlito Brigante:

I don't think it's possible to get Altitude server running on an Arm processor (which is what a Raspberry Pi uses).

incorrect. in the past i set up the vanilla alti server, and biell's alti+server (with xal's patches) on my pis (models 4b and 3b, maybe 2b too). i don't know much about it, but java should be architecture agnostic thanks to the jvm.
a single pi was handling multiple simultaneous alti servers (i was testing cross server portals) without issue, though i only had very few players online. i could imagine ladder would struggle if all of its servers were hosted on a pi.
haven't done anything since the last big alti update, but that shouldn't matter to the pi. also the java i was using was openjdk 8 or 11 or whatever raspbian was using by default. official raspbian is still only 32-bit so i don't think i ever tested it on a 64-bit OS but that shouldn't matter either.