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gollum65 · 08-06-2008, 11:18 PM

Hi guys,

I'm in the process of setting up my first online league as a commish. I'm currently in a couple of online leagues, so I understand how they work from the GM side of things. But I have some questions from the commish side of things.

1: I'm pretty good at setting up web sites, and I already have a decent one in the works. But I'm lost as far as what files to export out of OOTP and into what folders? I've got an exports folder and a reports folder setup and the game can connect to it fine, but I'm not 100% positive they're supposed to be in my "public html" folder, or if they should be "hidden" somewhere such as a cgi-bin folder or something.

2: Regarding what files to export, if I have the game build a league file (about 28 MB), it takes about an hour to upload to my web hosting server, which I admit is a bit slow, but an hour for 28 megs? And am I supposed to unzip the folder when it lands on the web hosting server or can the game access it even as a tar.gz?

3: If I go through the whole reports building deal, it puts together something like 4500+ files. Is that right? Do I have to build a 100% complete report setup every time I update? Again, it takes forever to upload anything that big, even if I ftp it up myself and then unzip.

4: I'm trying to setup Getch's great online util suite. It's asking me for the export directory, and the readme file he wrote states that the .csv files should be hidden in an export folder inside the cgi-bin folder. This is another case of an export of .csv files being very large and taking up a lot of time to upload. Do I have to export all the .csv files every time, or can I get away with using just some of them in order to have the utilities working as intended?

And yes, I've read the whole section in the manual about online leagues, and that did get a lot of my questions answered. But the things I'm asking about are confusing the heck out of me.

If I have to spend a whole day exporting & uploading 4 times a week just to try to run an online league, what's the point?

Thanks in advance!

08-06-2008, 11:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
gollum65 All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 900 Thanks: 7 Thanked 7x in 7 posts	Help for a new commish Hi guys, I'm in the process of setting up my first online league as a commish. I'm currently in a couple of online leagues, so I understand how they work from the GM side of things. But I have some questions from the commish side of things. 1: I'm pretty good at setting up web sites, and I already have a decent one in the works. But I'm lost as far as what files to export out of OOTP and into what folders? I've got an exports folder and a reports folder setup and the game can connect to it fine, but I'm not 100% positive they're supposed to be in my "public html" folder, or if they should be "hidden" somewhere such as a cgi-bin folder or something. 2: Regarding what files to export, if I have the game build a league file (about 28 MB), it takes about an hour to upload to my web hosting server, which I admit is a bit slow, but an hour for 28 megs? And am I supposed to unzip the folder when it lands on the web hosting server or can the game access it even as a tar.gz? 3: If I go through the whole reports building deal, it puts together something like 4500+ files. Is that right? Do I have to build a 100% complete report setup every time I update? Again, it takes forever to upload anything that big, even if I ftp it up myself and then unzip. 4: I'm trying to setup Getch's great online util suite. It's asking me for the export directory, and the readme file he wrote states that the .csv files should be hidden in an export folder inside the cgi-bin folder. This is another case of an export of .csv files being very large and taking up a lot of time to upload. Do I have to export all the .csv files every time, or can I get away with using just some of them in order to have the utilities working as intended? And yes, I've read the whole section in the manual about online leagues, and that did get a lot of my questions answered. But the things I'm asking about are confusing the heck out of me. If I have to spend a whole day exporting & uploading 4 times a week just to try to run an online league, what's the point? Thanks in advance!