Looking for a working guideline / docker image to install a server on Ubuntu Linux

[heusmich]

Hi @all,

I have a root server with Ubuntu 22.04 and am looking for a working guideline to setup a Conan Exiles server on this OS or a working docker image.
I already tried a docker image that I found and the server is visible ingame but with age ??? and a ping of 9999.
All my other game servers and the Teamspeak server are working.
I can´t connect to this server.
I am very thankful for any help.

Best regards

[heusmich]

Does nobody have a working install guide or docker image?

[eishai1]

Hi there,

https://github.com/theBlackDragon/conan-exiles-dedicated-server

I used this project because there is no working image on Docker Hub. There is a Dockerfile on the project page that you can customize and build an image yourself. With this I have a dedicated server running under linux. I hope this information helps you.

Greetings

[heusmich]

Thanks for your response.
Could you tell me how you created the image?
I created a folder /home/conanexiles/ and in this folder I created a file "docker-compose.yml".

When I execute the command "docker-compose up", I get the error message "ERROR: pull access denied for bgeens/conan-exiles-server, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied"

The description says that the image can be build with the "Make" command, but I´m not sure how to use this command in the right way.

Maybe you could post a step by step guide with the commands you used to get it working?
Sorry to ask this but I´m still a beginner in Docker...

[heusmich]

OK maybe I got some progress in this topic.

I additionally created the files Dockerfile, Makefile and startup.sh.
I made some changes in the Dockerfile so that it should work for Ubuntu and when I run the "make" command, it runs through all 19 install steps.
But when I then try to start the container with "docker-compose up -d", the following error occurs:

ERROR: for conan Cannot start service conan: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: exec: "/root/startup.sh": permission denied: unknown

I executed all command with the root user.
Do you have an idea how I can solve this problem?

[heusmich]

Is there anyone that can help me with setting up a server on Linux?
Would love to play this game with my friends.

[NPC]

I did this using the Pterodactyl frontend for game server management, and it took a lot of fiddling to get right. In the end though, we ultimately ditched the Linux server and went with a Windows server, for one major reason, that being the awful recurring and completely unpreventable memory crash with wine. We tried everything the internet suggested to fix it, but to no avail - no matter what we did, once the server hit a certain threshold, it would crash. It was a long and frustrating exercise in futility, and I recommend that anyone thinking of following the Conan Server on Linux route think hard about how much time they want to put into managing it instead of playing it.

If you're set on it still, I recommend starting with some searches for Pterodactyl server setup, as that community maintains several good repos of shared configs for multiple games, including Conan, which themselves link to numerous functional docker images for the same.

[hades]

Origineel geplaatst door NPC:

I did this using the Pterodactyl frontend for game server management, and it took a lot of fiddling to get right. In the end though, we ultimately ditched the Linux server and went with a Windows server, for one major reason, that being the awful recurring and completely unpreventable memory crash with wine. We tried everything the internet suggested to fix it, but to no avail - no matter what we did, once the server hit a certain threshold, it would crash. It was a long and frustrating exercise in futility, and I recommend that anyone thinking of following the Conan Server on Linux route think hard about how much time they want to put into managing it instead of playing it.

If you're set on it still, I recommend starting with some searches for Pterodactyl server setup, as that community maintains several good repos of shared configs for multiple games, including Conan, which themselves link to numerous functional docker images for the same.

In the issues on the github linked in post 2, there is a solution posted for a memory crash with wine.

[NPC]

Origineel geplaatst door hades:

In the issues on the github linked in post 2, there is a solution posted for a memory crash with wine.

Ah that's good. I wish I had seen that last year, it's something we never tried. Hopefully it works for the OP.

[J35TR]

This worked for me:
https://r-pufky.github.io/docs/game/conan/setup.html

Only thing you need to change is in the custom_server script change the exe file: ConanSandboxServer-Win64-Test.exe to ConanSandboxServer-Win64-Shipping.exe I think just double check the directory to confirm.

[Marcus Brutus]

Origineel geplaatst door J35TR:

This worked for me:
https://r-pufky.github.io/docs/game/conan/setup.html

Only thing you need to change is in the custom_server script change the exe file: ConanSandboxServer-Win64-Test.exe to ConanSandboxServer-Win64-Shipping.exe I think just double check the directory to confirm.

Thanks, just bought the game on sale for myself and my partner.
Looking to host it on proxmox->ubuntu->docker, will use this guide and see how I go. I don't do Windows VMs