"Choose World" on a server for terraria

[Yaeghs]

Hi there !

I have a server (VPS on debian 10) and try to run a terraria server in order my friends and I can play in the same world without needing someone hosts it on her own computer.

I try to launch the server with a world created by the server. We wanted to play on another world, on which we've played for a while, and so I've copied the `.wld` file on the `Worlds` folder and changed the configserver.txt with this new world. And now, I get this :

"Terraria Server v1.3.5.3

1 baba
n New World
d <number>Delete World

Choose World: _"

"n" works for new world, but not "d". And with this I can't choose the world I've noticed with the config file. And I don't find how to choose it. And no wiki are dealing with it.

The world was created on a windows system, and my server is a Linux (Debian 10) one. I guess it's the reason, but not sure.

Regards

 

[Yaeghs]

Hhhm, it seems that the "worldpath" option in the config file is totally ignored by the server. The real worldpath is "~terraria/.local/share/Terraria/Worlds/" and totally not one has specified.

So, I can now see the worlds I've created with the server in the "Choose World" interface. But not at all one created one Windows.

 

[Yaeghs]

Hm, ok. Now it sees, but it won't launch without backup (I've many errors with the `dll` files Oo)

 

[Yaeghs]

And definitely, the server exits with the windows world. Where is the log file ?

 

[Yaeghs]

Summarize :
I've tried to launch terraria server on my VPS with debian 10. I've noticed (too) many errors with this software.

My set up is so : terraria is now a service (startable with systemd) with the terraria.service file (I've created a terraria server user) :

[Unit]
Description=server daemon for terraria

[Service]
Type=forking
User=terraria
KillMode=none
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS terraria /bin/bash -c "/opt/terraria/TerrariaServer.bin.x86_64"
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/terrariad exit

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

--
And I can attach the screen of the terraria admin panel with a `terrariad attach` with `terrariad` so :

#!/bin/bash

send="`printf \"$*\r\"`"
attach='script /dev/null -qc "screen -r terraria"'
inject="screen -S terraria -X stuff $send"

if [ "$1" = "attach" ] ; then cmd="$attach"; else cmd="$inject" ; fi

if [ "`stat -c '%u' /var/run/screen/S-terraria/`" = "$UID" ]
then
    $cmd
else
    su - terraria -c "$cmd"
fi

Now, when I launc with a `systemctl start terraria && terrariad attach` i get the admin panel with "Choose World". The detected files are the worlds of `~terraria/.local/share/Terraria/Worlds/`. And :

- I can now choose between worlds (now I know where they are saved)
- I can launch the worlds created on Linux, but not those created on Windows (the server crashes when trying to launch a world from windows)
- The save command doesn't work. When I save, I got :

: save
Saving world data: 5%
Saving world data: 12%
Saving world data: 20%
Saving world data: 24%
Saving world data: 33%
Saving world data: 41%
Saving world data: 51%
Saving world data: 58%
Saving world data: 69%
Saving world data: 78%
Saving world data: 90%
Saving world data: 99%
Invalid command.
: Saving world data: 100%

but that finished.

- When I use the exit command ... server blocks. Nothing more happens and it runs again and again ... and i can't do anything more.

- Obviously, no changes are saved.