Help with some things I'm missing

[yurimg31]

Hello, so I have a discord channel with friends and we usually play 4fun and mix games. I made the server with matchzy and other many plugins and run it on a Google Cloud VM. I don't know how to program, use docker, I'm nowhere near a dev, but I'm dedicated. Hahaha. Recently we've been wasting too much time on discord call trying to choose the teams in our pugs and also vetoing maps. So I saw on matchzy I could use this API + Front end to make these things more fun and easier. I remember using get5 on csgo and being able to do those inside the server choosing team captains, but that's no longer available.

So I'm trying to set up GET5Panel. I followed the instructions, but something must've been wrong because whenever I try to upgrade the production.json with the last code on the config instructions, I get an error. "Command failed with exit code 1". I must've done something wrong. What I did was download the Release zip file from github, send it to my user folder on the VM and from there follow all the instructions. I did everything but I still get the error, I will be trying to do it all again after deleting all files to see if it works.

My other question is, if I do get everything right and build the front end step, I noticed it will generate a folder called dist. My question is, what do I do next? I have to upload that folder and turn it into a website? How do you reccomend me to do that the easiest way possible, I'm sure I could use Google Cloud for example to do so, but I don't know how. Is it easy?

[yurimg31]

I've just redone the whole G5API process.

1- I followed all installation instructions, I was able to install NVM and I installed the version 18 instead because of a future error with the version on the guide. I also installed yarn successfully on the latest version from their website instruction. I followed all the instructions for the MariaDB/Mysql, I created the database and user exactly like in the instructions and only changed the password. I also was able to change the redis conf file as mentioned and restarted redis. The status command just gave me like a 1/15 page thing, so I think it worked.

2 - I downloaded the release zip file and extracted it on my Windows PC, changed all information on the production example file using the instructions and double checking everything, using the names of database, user and password that I chose for the database previously created. Everything seems to be okay, I can send how my file is if it helps, idk if there's any sensitive info there. Then I sent the whole folder to my VM steam user folder. I renamed the example file to production.json and tried to run the command on upgrade command on SSH while on the G5API folder. I tried also to copy the json file to the G5API main folder, but nothing works. What I'm getting on my console now is:

yarn run v1.22.22
$ db-migrate --env production --config config/production.json up:production
/bin/sh: 1: db-migrate: not found
error Command failed with exit code 127.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

[PhlexPlexico]

Hi,

If you're not experienced with coding or systems, I would highly recommend using Docker for this project, as it can be kind of complex to setup for a person who does not have a lot of experience. Since you project is technically two projects, a front end and a back end, you'll need a webserver such as Caddy, or NGINX to show the front end (after building, it's that dist folder).

However, I can still answer your questions but won't be able to provide full support.

1. If redis is running properly, you can use redis-cli -a '<your_password>' or just enter redis-cli and hit enter, then type AUTH <your_password> once that's done, just type ping and hit enter and it should reply with PONG.

2. You need to install all the node modules. This can be done first by simply typing yarn. Then you can follow the instructions to create and upgrade the database. There's some handy scripts like yarn migrate-create-prod that will do these things for you.

As for the front end, as I said you would need knowledge in how to setup a reverse proxy, as well as serve your content. This is to avoid opening up any unnecessary ports to your instance. This will basically make sure all calls to the */api/ will be directed to your_API_instance:3301

This is mainly why I recommend the use of docker, especially if you have no other web services. The docker compose file will setup, build, and deploy both applications as well as setting up SSL certs (for https) and take care of all the reverse proxying configs for you.

Thanks!

[yurimg31]

Hey, thanks so much dor the response. I was actually able to get it done last night by using ChatGPT as a hand. Hahaha. But after everything was done, when I restarted the server, all plugins stopped working. I will try to find a fix for this today. Also, is there any way to pick teams through the GET5V? Like we are 10, we want to separate two captains and they each pick one to go to their team, I don't think that's possible, right?

[PhlexPlexico]

The panel itself is meant for tournament management, not for pugs, so not really. I know there were some discord bots made at one point that would take care of pugs https://github.com/thboss/g5-discord-bot but I'm not sure if they really work anymore or not. That may be something more up your Avenue instead of the web panel.

Thanks!

[yurimg31]

Thank you. I was able to insert the bot and go through the lobby creation step, but after teams are picked there's an API error.

Invalid API key.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/g5-discord-bot/bot/helpers/api.py", line 237, in create_team
raise ValueError("Invalid API key.")
ValueError: Invalid API key.

Do you know what could it be?

[PhlexPlexico]

Make sure you input the API key correctly. It needs to be unencrypted, and have the format of {user_id}:{API_key} I believe in order for it to post properly.

[yurimg31]

I put my steam api key. Same one being used on Get5API. Is it that one?

[PhlexPlexico]

No. The API key required to make calls to the API is it's own key. You can find it by logging in and navigating to the /user/:id route, where the ID is a sequential number of registered users. If you're the only one using the API then it will be /user/1. The API key is there and then you can use the above format, or just try using the API key without the {user_id}:.

[yurimg31]

Thanks a lot! It's perfectly working. I was able to have some matches done. I just couldn't be able to run workshop maps on wingman, haven't tested them on competitive. But I will try some solutions later. Appreciate it.