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By Abhishek Ghosh August 23, 2012 12:35 am Updated on August 23, 2012

Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites

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Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on your own Rackspace Cloud Sites and with the power of Cloud Computing enjoy this browser based RPG written in PHP. Shadows Rising is a RPG Game and the gaming engine runs with PHP, MySQL with javascript support and output is as xHTML.

 

Preface to Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites

 

You can install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites as on a subfolder, a subdomain or on the domain. In our example, we will install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on a subdomain because we want the load-balancers can effectively distribute the computing power. Nothing is needed but few :

 

  • A secured SFTP client like WinSCP for Windows PC
  • Rackspace Cloud Sites account
  • Any good text editor
  • And most importantly, download the game Shadows Rising from SourceForge.

 

Steps to Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites

 

As we are creating a subdomain, there are some extra steps. Login to your Rackspace Cloud Sites account and click to expand the Hosting list on left hand sided column and click Cloud Sites :

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Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites

 

Click the “Add A Site” Button. Add as any listed website’s subdomain, in this example we will name it as :

 

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shadowsrising.thecustomizewindows.com

 

 

Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game

The next steps are wizard based and like adding any website on Cloud Sites, just add any plan, make sure to keep :

 

  •  Microsoft SQL Server Storage  : Off
  •  Databases  : 1 to unlimited. Just make sure that there is one database, at least.
  •  Technology : Linux / Apache / PHP 5.3

 

Finish it with $0.00 bill. Go to the features tab and click Add to add a database. Open your text editor like notepad and copy paste the details of database.

 

Install and Run Shadows Rising

 

By this time the subdomain should be ready and will show the default webpage. Open SFTP client and login. Browse to the directory of named subdomain and go to the content directory, in our case :

 

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/shadowsrising.thecustomizewindows.com/web/content

 

There will be an index.html file. Delete it. On the left hand pane, if you are using WinSCP, browse to the place on your computer where you have downloaded Shadows Rising Package, uncompress within WinSCP and go in the uncompressed folder and drag and drop all the contents to your /web/content/ directory on the right hand side :

 

WinSCP

 

Point your browser to install.php file :

 

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http://shadowsrising.thecustomizewindows.com/install.php

 

You will get a table like form to fill :

 

Database type
Database name your copied name
Database username your copied name
Database password your copied password
Database host something.stabletransit.com
Database port 3306
Database persistent connection
Game root Full Linux Path
Map path
SQL path
Authorisation email   Your’s one
Server name
Url prefix
Code base
Forum link
Server Admin email Your’s one
Server Admin password Your’s one
Confirm admin password Your’s one
Do not read Game Vars from local file?  Do not enable
Enable GZip HTTP Compression?  Do not enable
GZip Level (Min: 1 – Max: 9):  Do not enable

 

So we have completed the guide to install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites. Do not keep this game on a active website’s subdomain or subdirectory. It has security flaws as alpha version.

 

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Install and Run Shadows Rising RPG Game on Rackspace Cloud Sites," in The Customize Windows, August 23, 2012, June 29, 2022, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2012/08/install-and-run-shadows-rising-rpg-game-on-rackspace-cloud-sites/.

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