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70 lines
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Dirtbags Monarch Of The Hill Server
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This is a set of thingies to run our Monarch-Of-The-Hill contest,
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which in the past has been called
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"Tracer FIRE",
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"Project 2",
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"HACK",
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"Queen Of The Hill",
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and "Cyber FIRE".
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Information about these events is at
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http://dirtbags.net/contest/
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This software serves up puzzles in a manner similar to Jeopardy.
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It also track scores,
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and comes with a JavaScript-based scoreboard to display team rankings.
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How everything works
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This section wound up being pretty long.
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Please check out [the overview](doc/overview.md)
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for details.
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How to set it up
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It's made to be virtualized,
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so you can run multiple contests at once if you want.
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If you were to want to run it out of `/opt/koth`,
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do the following:
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$ mkdir -p /opt/koth/mycontest
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$ ./install /opt/koth/mycontest
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$ cp kothd /opt/koth
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Yay, you've got it set up.
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Installing Puzzle Categories
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Puzzle categories are distributed in a different way than the server.
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After setting up (see above), just run
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$ /opt/koth/mycontest/bin/install-category /path/to/my/category
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Running It
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Get your web server to serve up files from
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`/opt/koth/mycontest/www`.
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Then run `/opt/koth/kothd`.
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Permissions
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It's up to you not to be a bonehead about permissions.
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Install sets it so the web user on your system can write to the files it needs to,
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but if you're using Apache,
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it plays games with user IDs when running CGI.
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You're going to have to figure out how to configure your preferred web server.
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