Comments on: Left 4 Dead remote commander

By: muukis

muukis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:17:33 +0000

I can’t get this to work. I found a bug while giving the code a glance however, but fixing it did not help me much further…

I don’t know why you convert the login info to lower case?! Is there a particular reason for doing so? On connect.php (line 12) I did the following:
//$_POST[$param]= strtolower(trim(addslashes($_POST[$param])));
$_POST[$param]= trim(addslashes($_POST[$param]));

That got me to log in properly (?) but the next page is just blank… no IP no nothing… should there be some text on those fields?

By: William Ruckman

William Ruckman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:35:09 +0000

I am having issues with mine saying “Connection made” but the the working symbol just keeps spinning on the server tab. I have other web plugins that can connect and display the info fine. Any thoughts?

By: Marak

Marak — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:40:29 +0000

Yes just noticed… sorry for the preceeding post… I think it’s time to kill some zombies… Happy Fragging to ya…

By: Simon Jones

Simon Jones — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:38:37 +0000

Hey Marak. Your previous post wasn’t deleted, I just hadn’t had a chance to do admin on comments today until now. Thanks for reading!

By: Marak

Marak — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:27:13 +0000

wOw.. You actually deleted my post *lol* well I figured it out anyways and for anyone who cares.

Clear Server Password:: sv_password “” …..then restart server…. _restart

By: Ivan Marak

Ivan Marak — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:19:36 +0000

Hey Dave cool script by the way… I have a question and I know this sounds a little noobish on my part, but how to clear the server password so other players have access to the game server without entering a PW? I had looked through the console commands at http://www.left4dead411.com/l4d_cvar_list.pdf , but couldn’t find my solution. I attempted to restart the server “_restart” and no dice, in fact nothing happen. Thanks in advance for any replies…

By: me

me — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:07:52 +0000

After having big troubles with the rcon pw it works now…
I’m running the script at my dedicated Linux server.

But got still a small Problem…the server is running with it’s own user, the script is owned by the www user, which is different. I can see the refreshcalls from the scipt to the server in the serverlogs, but it looks like the answer from the server to the script gets lost – no status returns from the server at all. I could fire rcon requests through the scrip, no problem, it works, i could see them in the log, too, but i never get response back – whatever me or the sript does. Do you have an idea how to fix this?

By: Dave Cranwell

Dave Cranwell — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:23:02 +0000

d307: you download a Subversion client, (link in the main post) install it, then use it to “check out” a version of the source code, using the trunk url on google code. Read the subversion client help for explanation. I won’t provide zips as the codebase is too changeable and zips would require too much maintenance. Subversion allows all users to instantly update their codebase.

By: d307

d307 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:20:33 +0000

Where can I download this? I went to the google code page but I do not see where I can download the source files. Can someone assist me with this?

Thank You

By: Teck

Teck — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:51:15 +0000

I have written something like this that works with Steam games… CSS, TF2, L4D, etc… Of course mine is an in house app only for our admins but… Yours isnt too bad…

Just some quick tips: 1) I would suggest automating some things… For example it is best to write code to parse rcon output. For things like maps it is extremely valuable… From there just cache the data and have it refresh the map data when an admin requests it or every 24 hours… 2) HTTPS does need to be added, but you already know that… 3) Write something to detect if the correct ports needed for the script are allowed…

For anyone who cannot get it working on their own web servers… Make sure that the ports needed for source are open on the web server… I know that with my custom rcon scripts for source games, that is one of the issues… Some web servers just have super strict firewalls and they will prevent the script from running.