GoMMO_Manager.exe sits at the top of every release archive: every RF Online version, Gate to Heavens Classic, World of Kung Fu and DragonSoul. It is the same program in all of them, and the manager.ini beside settings.cfg names the game, so there is nothing to configure.
It is Windows only. On Linux, use the start scripts in server/ or the systemd templates in server/linux/.
What It Does
- Starts and stops each server from the folder the server expects to run from, with a live log pane for each and the figures the running server reports: players online, uptime, accounts and characters.
- Keeps a server up if you turn Auto on, and stops trying after three restarts in thirty seconds.
- Sets the server up the first time. While nobody holds Super Administrator on the game, Server Setup opens by itself: it creates your owner account, then writes the address players connect to into the client files your website hands out.
- Manages accounts offline: search, create, set a password, set a staff level from 0 to 4, ban or unban, clear a forgotten UI lock, delete.
- Shows the admin password your website prints while nobody is staff.
- Takes backups of every database into
backups/, on demand and every 24 hours by default, and restores one with the servers stopped. - Restarts the game server with a warning to everyone in game, on the versions whose server supports it.
- Takes commands for the running game server:
announce,save,kick,reload-settingsandreload-content. - Edits the settings people change: the game port, the player limit, the website port and the website's domains. A moved RF game port is written into
client/launcher.initoo. - Checks your ports and adds the Windows Firewall rule for them.
- Updates the server when a newer release is out, after backing up every database. Your settings, your players' databases, your logs and your
client/folder are left alone. Gate to Heavens Classic is the exception: its client ships beside the server, so it is updated by hand. - Packs a support bundle of logs and config, with passwords and keys taken out, for a bug report.
- Signs in to oldschoolops.com, if you choose, so you can file and follow bug reports from the window.
- Opens GoMMO Studio on this server, or tells you where to get it.
Services and tools walks through every one of these in detail.
A Server It Did Not Start
A server started from the same folder by something else, such as GoMMO Studio or a start script, shows as "started outside GoMMO Manager". The manager does not start a second copy, its Stop button still stops it, and closing the manager leaves it running.
Options
Options at the top turns on starting with Windows, starting the servers when the manager opens, Auto for every server, and keeping the manager in the tray when you close the window. Without the tray, closing the window stops whatever the manager started.
The Settings File
manager.ini is written when the archive is built. Edit it only if you move something. The two lines worth knowing are BACKUP_EVERY_HOURS, where 0 turns the automatic backups off, and BACKUP_KEEP, how many automatic backups to keep.