Up-to-date Adding Application to Server tutorial

hanuman

Hi everyb,

I've just started with Photon Server and with no problem installed server in 5 minutes and also clients samples. But stumbled when I tried to implement custom server side code trying to follow this tutorial trying to do everything as mentioned. When I added corresponding section to PhotonServer.config:
[code2=xml]<Application
Name="ChatServer"
BaseDirectory="ChatServer"
Assembly="ChatServer"
Type="ChatServer" />[/code2]
server just does not start. Yep, I've rechecked all paths etc. Can someone please guide where I may be wrong? Thanks in advance.

Tobias

Maybe the type needs a namespace (it must be a fully qualified name). Like we do with "Lite.LiteApplication".
It could also be an issue with the location of the dlls. The directory you have those in is: deploy/ChatServer or deploy/ChatServer/bin?
Check the start logs of the server and let us know what's the error msg.

hanuman

Hi Tobias,
Thanks for quick reply.

I've just copied all files from /bin/release/ of project to deploy/EpicServer/bin, is it enough?

01.11.2012 11:21 6 144 EpicServer.dll
01.11.2012 11:21 15 872 EpicServer.pdb
19.07.2012 13:11 139 776 ExitGamesLibs.dll
19.07.2012 13:11 390 656 ExitGamesLibs.pdb
19.07.2012 13:11 486 923 ExitGamesLibs.xml
27.07.2012 16:51 188 928 Photon.SocketServer.dll
27.07.2012 16:51 552 448 Photon.SocketServer.pdb
27.07.2012 16:51 404 815 Photon.SocketServer.xml

As mentioned in instruction root class name EpicServer is defined without namespace. Or should I define it within namespace and then mean it like NameSpace.ClassName?

That is error log:

2848: 14:38:46.886 - Service: "Photon Socket Server" starting
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Config File: \Work\PhotonServer\Server\deploy\bin_Win32_xp\PhotonServer.config
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Will produce at most: 10 crash dumps
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Action:debug
2848: 14:38:46.902 -
2848: 14:38:46.902 - WARNING: ***************************************************************
2848: 14:38:46.902 - WARNING: Photon has been built to operate on an operating system earlier than Windows Vista.
2848: 14:38:46.902 - WARNING: Performance will not be as good as when built for Windows Vista or later.
2848: 14:38:46.902 - WARNING: ***************************************************************
2848: 14:38:46.902 -
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Server Starting...
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Tick count: 183706 (wraps in: 49.7081 days)
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Photon Version: 3.0.27.1684
2848: 14:38:46.902 - PID: 2840
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Config File: \Work\PhotonServer\Server\deploy\bin_Win32_xp\PhotonServer.config
2848: 14:38:46.902 - CService::OnException() - Exception: CXMLDocument::LoadFromString() - Error reading Attributes.
2848: 14:38:46.902 - Server shutting down...

And that's the piece of config file:

<Applications Default="Lite">
<!-- Lite Application -->
<Application
Name="Lite"
BaseDirectory="Lite"
Assembly="Lite"
Type="Lite.LiteApplication"
ForceAutoRestart="true"
WatchFiles="dll;config"
ExcludeFiles="log4net.config">
</Application>

<!-- LiteLobby Application -->
<Application
Name="LiteLobby"
BaseDirectory="LiteLobby"
Assembly="LiteLobby"
Type="LiteLobby.LiteLobbyApplication"
ForceAutoRestart="true"
WatchFiles="dll;config"
ExcludeFiles="log4net.config">
</Application>

<!-- MMO Demo Application -->
<Application
Name="MmoDemo"
BaseDirectory="MmoDemo"
Assembly="Photon.MmoDemo.Server"
Type="Photon.MmoDemo.Server.PhotonApplication"
ForceAutoRestart="true"
WatchFiles="dll;config"
ExcludeFiles="log4net.config">
</Application>


<!-- CounterPublisher Application -->
<Application
Name="CounterPublisher"
BaseDirectory="CounterPublisher"
Assembly="CounterPublisher"
Type="Photon.CounterPublisher.Application"
ForceAutoRestart="true"
WatchFiles="dll;config"
ExcludeFiles="log4net.config">
</Application>

<!-- Flash & Silverlight Policy Server -->
<Application
Name="Policy"
BaseDirectory="Policy"
Assembly="Policy.Application"
Type="Exitgames.Realtime.Policy.Application.Policy">
</Application>

<!-- EpicServer Application -->
<Application
Name="EpicServer"
BaseDirectory="EpicServer"
Assembly="EpicServer"
Type="EpicServer"
</Application>
</Applications>

dreamora

You are missing the closing > after Type="EpicServer"

hanuman

dreamora wrote:

You are missing the closing > after Type="EpicServer"

OMG. this typo costed me couple of hours beating with it...:(
Thanx a lot dreamora! :geek: