Hi,

I was using WoW and UniUploader in Windows XP for quite a while. Now I have WoW running in Linux and was wondering if anyone has had any luck with UniUploader in Linux. I suppose JUU would work better since it would not require .NET to run, but I thought it would be worth asking at least.

I've spent a little bit of time trying to get UU running, but haven't gotten it to work yet. I will probably spend a little bit more time and try JUU if I fail. I doubt many people run WoW in Linux, but if I get UU working I will post some info here. If anyone else has already done it, I would appreciate some suggestions.

[MattM Edit:] If you can't run UniUploader, please try Java UniUploader or phpUniUploader

I have a solution which is called phpUniUploader

You need to install PHP command line on your linux box for it.

I will make it available as a package. I build it for myself in the past but it is no secret

UniUploader is C# based, I guess someone could try compiling it with mono. It would require some alteration of course but could work in MacOS X as well if someone would be up to porting it.

Not me though.. =)

I have uploaded phpUniUploader r346 which is currently tested and working against UniAdmin 0.7.0 and Roster 1.7.3.
Under MAC and Linux it runs fine (and might work well under Windows too btw)

http://www.wowroster.net/Downloads/details/id=99.html

I have just updated the package and it now supports UniAdmin 0.7.5.

Anyone testing it yet ?

Thanks for the quick response Mathos. I downloaded it and tried to run it... I , have php5-curl, php5-cli, and Daemon installed. When I run

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./phpuniuploader.rc.sh start

it does not spit out anything.
When I run

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./phpuniuploader.rc.sh status

it responds

daemon: phpuniuploader is not running

Any idea what I'm missing?

you have to adjust the phpuniuploader.rc.sh script as there is a path variable in there.

Also you need to modify the settings.inc.php file to your needs.

Apart from that you best place the RC script in /etc/init.d/
and make links from the correct runlevels to that file.

You can start it as root with: /etc/init.d/phpuniuploader start
also the status which you already found will work as root once it is running:
/etc/init.d/phpuniuploader status

You may also run it on the command line like: php ./phpUniUploader.php
if the RC script aint working 100% for you.
check for the process running with: ps -ef |grep -i phpuniuploader

Sorry if I made redundent comments but I do not know you technical skills, so no offense

Oh right, one last thing, the LOG files should contain some info.
look in your Log dir (found inside the settings.inc.php) to see what it spits !

Mathos,

Thanks for the info... I've never run php from the command line before. I was expecting the shell script to output some kind of error, but you made it for personal use, so why should it? lol

I had already updated the settings file, but not the shell script. I changed the shell script and still had problems, so I ran

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php phpUniUploader.php

and got an output that the fopen failed because the file did not exist.

Hint for linux users. The $WoWDir variable (I think that was the name of it) is in php speak, not linux speak. I had

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/home/brian/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/World\ of\ Warcraft

when it should have been

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/home/brian/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft

It was not generating a log before, because that was incorrect. I did not have time to check the log or test it yet, but tonight I will be sure to. It started up, and showed it running when I checked the status, though. More info will come tonight. (I currently have UniAdmin 0.70, I will test with that, then update to 0.75 and test again).

Cool stuff, yeah sometimes it is hard to get those spaces out of the way

Anyway, let me know and I hope you get the stuff running.

If all works okay, I might even make a package for it for Linux. I havent got a Mac so really can do it there I am afraid, but mac is pretty simple too I think as it is just BSD at the core anyway.

I just noticed that when allow_url_fopen is not permitted, addon download will fail.
I will change that to also use cURL if it is available.

One other issue is the 0.7.5 Non-Full-Path downloads, which I will address in the next version too. We require that to enable the WoW-Ace feature.

Thanks for the input Mathos. If there is a problem with anything, it will probably go wrong on my system. It always has a tendency to do that, lol.

A few of quick questions:
1. I'm not familiar with WoW-Ace... I did a quick search and saw it was to help addon developers... will that WoW-Ace feature affect non-developers?
edit: I just took a quick look at the Uni-Admin change log. Is this function for downloading Addons from WoWAce?

2. With regard to the Non-Full-Path downloads... is that just /Interface/Addons/WoWAddonName vs. simply WoWAddonName? Or is there something else?

3. Is there meant to be any output from the script or should it be "invisible" and run in the background silently updating addons and updloading lua files?

3: normally it will log stuff all the time, like LUA files changed, uploading....bla bla
Als the last upload log will contain output like you see when you manually upload.

2: Yes

1: It will eventually download the WoW Ace Addons, although UniUploader is not even ready for Non-Full path addons.
I believe for the Windows part, MattM is working on that too.

Appears to be workign like a charm Mathos. I confirm that it updated my addons with uniadmin 0.70 and also updated my character profile and guild profile with the password.

I upgraded to 0.75, I do not have any WoW-Ace downloads, but I also confirm that it did not do the No Full-Path download adjustments. Not a major deal, but I would definitely update my script if you changed that.

Another question:
I am currently not updating any other lua files, like CT_Raidtracker, but if I wanted to, would it be difficult to include?

Thanks a bunch Mathos, this is exactly what I was looking for

Nope, that would not be a problem at all. Just enable them on your UniAdmin site (SV Files section) and they will be pickup up automatically.

I will update the script tonight to use Non-Fullpath installs and threat them as AddOns, but will have to dig into the download mechanism a bit that Zanix build.

Thanks for the Thumbs Up

New version r643 is out.

!!!!! BE WARNED !!!!!
Do not install this baby prior to the release of UniAdmin 0.7.6 !!!
I am uncertain if it is compatible with 0.7.5 and also definately NOT compatible with 0.7.0.