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145 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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"Cyber Spark",
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"Cyber Fire",
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"Cyber Fire Puzzles",
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and "Cyber Fire Foundry".
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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 tracks scores,
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and comes with a JavaScript-based scoreboard to display team rankings.
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Running a Development Server
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============================
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docker run --rm -it -p 8080:8080 dirtbags/moth-devel
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And point a browser to http://localhost:8080/ (or whatever host is running the server).
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When you're ready to create your own puzzles,
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read [the devel server documentation](docs/devel-server.md).
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Click the `[mb]` link by a puzzle category to compile and download a mothball that the production server can read.
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Running a Production Server
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===========================
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docker run --rm -it -p 8080:8080 -v /path/to/moth:/moth dirtbags/moth
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You can be more fine-grained about directories, if you like.
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Inside the container, you need the following paths:
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* `/moth/state` (rw) Where state is stored. Read [the overview](docs/overview.md) to learn what's what in here.
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* `/moth/mothballs` (ro) Mothballs (puzzle bundles) as provided by the development server.
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* `/moth/resources` (ro) Overrides for built-in HTML/CSS resources.
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Getting Started Developing
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-------------------------------
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If you don't have a `puzzles` directory,
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you can copy the example puzzles as a starting point:
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$ cp -r example-puzzles puzzles
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Then launch the development server:
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$ python3 tools/devel-server.py
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Point a web browser at http://localhost:8080/
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and start hacking on things in your `puzzles` directory.
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More on how the devel sever works in
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[the devel server documentation](docs/devel-server.md)
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Running A Production Server
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====================
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Run `dirtbags/moth` (Docker) or `mothd` (native).
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`mothd` assumes you're running a contest out of `/moth`.
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For Docker, you'll need to bind-mount your actual directories
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(`state`, `mothballs`, and optionally `resources`) into
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`/moth/`.
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You can override any path with an option,
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run `mothd -help` for usage.
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State Directory
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===============
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Pausing scoring
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-------------------
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Create the file `state/disabled`
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to pause scoring,
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and remove it to resume.
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You can use the Unix `touch` command to create the file:
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touch state/disabled
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When scoring is paused,
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participants can still submit answers,
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and the system will tell them whether the answer is correct.
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As soon as you unpause,
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all correctly-submitted answers will be scored.
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Resetting an instance
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-------------------
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Remove the file `state/initialized`,
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and the server will zap everything.
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Setting up custom team IDs
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-------------------
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The file `state/teamids.txt` has all the team IDs,
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one per line.
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This defaults to all 4-digit natural numbers.
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You can edit it to be whatever strings you like.
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We sometimes to set `teamids.txt` to a bunch of random 8-digit hex values:
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for i in $(seq 50); do od -x /dev/urandom | awk '{print $2 $3; exit;}'; done
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Remember that team IDs are essentially passwords.
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Mothball Directory
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==================
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Installing puzzle categories
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The development server will provide you with a `.mb` (mothball) file,
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when you click the `[mb]` link next to a category.
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Just drop that file into the `mothballs` directory,
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and the server will pick it up.
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If you remove a mothball,
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the category will vanish,
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but points scored in that category won't!
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