ASTECH: easier MegaMek server administration.

[SeeM]

Hi everyone.

I want to present my newest piece of work: web frontend to MegaMek server.

It's an easy way to have your own dedicated MegaMek, without a hassle with VPN, like Hamachi. You're welcome to join. I'm hosting it myself and gladly add you to the user list. It's not a finished product, but it's getting close and I need some free testers. :)

Here is how you use it:
https://youtu.be/r5_qf0LX8p4

Source code in here:
https://github.com/seem8/astech

Have fun! :)

[mikecj]

cool, thanks!

[SeeM]

Weekly update. We've got nice error messages when uploading maps, saves and megameklab files:

As always, newest version is in the repo: https://github.com/seem8/astech

http://wstaw.org/m/2017/06/05/astech_e1.jpg

http://wstaw.org/m/2017/06/05/astech_e2.jpg

[SeeM]

Version 0.2 is out.

- Fixed security bug, that allowed to download and delete map, unit
  and save files without logging in.
- Creating directories if they don't exist.
- Improved commemts in astech.py
- PUBLIC BETA READY. Already deployed and working in a campaign play.

I'm pretty sure, that Astech can handle your campaign at this point. While waiting on 1.0 release (which means adding those features), I use it sometimes on my MegaMek server and find it very usefull.

have fun

[firedude1218]

This looks really nice, I'm going to have to give it a go when I get my megamek campaign going.

[SeeM]

This looks really nice, I'm going to have to give it a go when I get my megamek campaign going.

Thanks, I'm happy to help.

I'm adding sql code in the dev-sql branch to make user changes more permanent, speed things up and preparing for multi user accounts. For now it's not working at all, but I see the light at the end already.

[SeeM]

Quite an update today. I didn't push to github for some time and fixed some things this month:
- password is now stored as an encrypted hash (but it's useless until page is served via https, I'm not yet familiar with apache and nginx enough to do that),
- script checks if MegaMek instance is running and shows "off" status if it crashed (not that unusual with development versions),
- I updated a lot of comments, because even I forgot what some parts of code is doing,
- sadly, sql part was a miss; too much work for too less result.

I'm slowly taking out my TODO list. Next: Nginx, uwsgi and encryption.

[SeeM]

Some news for today. We have options page, where we can choose between a number of installed MegaMek versions. They are not sharing custom maps, units and saves, but it's still more convenient than:
rm -rf megamek
wget megamek-[version].tar.gz
tar -xvf megamek-[version].tar.gz
mv megamek-[version] megamek
 :P

[SeeM]

There is a small progress. I moved from html formatting to css. Page has a potential to look a little nicer in near future.

[SeeM]

I merged saves, units and maps into a single page. Makes more sense.

[TS_Hawk]

Cool I might have to use this