Is it possible to run PhotonServer without PhotonControl

Manab

A have battle server on Unity and some other server nodes (Master server, Chat server and others), that runs using my own network framework. I try to add Photon UDP as transport to my network framework (it will be used on battle server only). But when I added realization of ApplicationBase class, I understood that I dont know how to run it without PhotonControl (I need it because battle server runs on Unity3D as executable). So, is it possible?

Manab

Or may be Photon has some other classes, that can accept client connections via Photon reliable UDP?

[Deleted User]

Hello

There are several options.

1. you can install Photon as a windows service:

PhotonSocketServer.exe /install Default

... then control it in whatever way you would do with any Windows service.

2. you can start Photon as a process programmatically:

start PhotonSocketServer.exe /debug Default

(use "Loadbalancing" instead of "Default" if you are using code that is based on the Loadbalancing instance.)

Check out the *.cmd files in /bin_Win64 for examples!

ssliwinski

Nicole said:

Hello

There are several options.

1. you can install Photon as a windows service:

PhotonSocketServer.exe /install Default

... then control it in whatever way you would do with any Windows service.

2. you can start Photon as a process programmatically:

start PhotonSocketServer.exe /debug Default

(use "Loadbalancing" instead of "Default" if you are using code that is based on the Loadbalancing instance.)

Check out the *.cmd files in /bin_Win64 for examples!

I tried modifying the _service.install.cmd like this:

@echo off
REM change dir to location of script
SET mypath=%~dp0
CD %mypath%

PhotonSocketServer.exe /install Default


and after running this script as an admin, I get the following error when I try to start the installed service (Photon Socket Server: Default) from the Windows Services application:

The Photon Socket Server: Default service terminated with the following service-specific error:
The system cannot open the device or file specified.

chvetsov

probably you need to specify path to config.

does it start correctly if you use PhotonControl.exe?

JohnTube

Hi @ssliwinski,

You can also start Photon Server process directly without the need to install service.
Please check out this comment.