Dockstar: Darkstar Made Easy

Dockstar lets you configure, build, and deploy a new Darkstar Server with zero effort using Docker.

Quick-Start

0. Ensure you have the Bash shell (Mac OS and Linux automatically have this) and have Docker installed.
1. Run git clone https://github.com/crahda/dockstar in a terminal
2. cd dockstar
3. bash build.sh
4. bash start.sh (Be patient; the first server start has to install MySQL and setup the database. Subsequent starts are much faster)
5. A Darkstar server will now be running at the IP address specified by the $DRK_ZONE_IP environment variable (defaults to your computer's public IP). Enjoy!

Configuration

All of the configuration files can be found in the config folder. Files that end in .drk will be automatically loaded as their corresponding .conf files when the server starts.

Whatever you do, DO NOT change any of the all-caps strings that start with DRK_ in the .drk files; these are automatically replaced with appropriate values when the server starts.

Game Masters

Whenever the Dockstar server is started via bash start.sh, it will look for an environment variable called DRK_GMS_LIST. If this variable exists and contains the names of any characters in the game world, those characters will be automatically promoted to level 5 GMS.

Here's an example configuration you could perform to make Crahda and Rickie GMs; player names are separated by commas:

export DRK_GMS_LIST="Crahda,Rickie"

Zone IP

Whenever the Dockstar server is started via bash start.sh, it will automatically configure the Zone IP to be your computers public IP address. To override this with a custom domain or other thing, simply run the following command at your command line, replacing my.domain.com with your desired public IP or domain name:

export DRK_ZONE_IP=my.domain.com